ego stroke

verb: when someone purposely fishes for compliments from other people to reassure themselves that they are in fact good looking and/or good at a certain subject.

see also: ego, ego high, ego-tastic, ego trippin

Dylan: hey ladies, I'm looking mighty fine today don't cha think? Man I'm good and looking good!

Leanne: (*awkwardly replies*) yeah man, shit you're friggen sexy...wait... aren't you like 15?

Mary: Leanne don't buy that crap, he's just looking for an ego stroke...he's not even that GREAT looking! It looks like he just got ran over by the ice cream truck that says "watch for children" all over it.

ego stroke by ae123456 November 10, 2009

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Ego Stroker

Someone who flirts with you just for the attention but when push comes to shove they aren't interested in you, just the attention you give them.

Sam flirts with Sally everyday. Sally blushes and flirts back. Sally works up the nerve to ask Sam out, Sam declines but still attempts to flirt because he's an ego stroker.

Ego Stroker by ShopGirl07 June 21, 2010

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Ego Stroking

The act of masturbating to ones own image

"What a narcissist. I heard his little brother caught him ego stroking!"

Ego Stroking by Cody Persun March 22, 2009

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stroking an ego

The art of giving someone compliments until their ego inflates, ego gets larger

"Tracey's been stroking an ego again."

"Who was it?"
"Josh, we're going to have to put him down."

stroking an ego by Sub0x0one October 30, 2013

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bang a you-ee

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"

hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee

bang a you-ee by Pistolero Pierro May 4, 2008

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Fleg

The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.

"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"

Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013

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Skeef

To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.

"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."

Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026

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