Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An enthusiastic amateur photographer.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who makes a hobby of photography.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a photography enthusiast
Etymologies
- shutter + bug, from their tendency to work the camera's shutter frequently. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A punk-rock shutterbug from the Swedish sticks is asked to snap shots at an upper-crust”
“A shutterbug from an early age "I learned to process film before I learned how to drive", Mr. Shitagi started out capturing some of the wondrous natural settings in his native Hawaii.”
““Thank you,” she said as she walked over to the photographer's umbrella, her arms akimbo to keep her pits in picture-perfect shape until the shutterbug was ready.”
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“And not usually that, Jims the bit of the Division II shutterbug.”
“When the dish you ordered arrives beautifully arranged and absolutely glistening with flavor, it can be hard not to turn into a restaurant shutterbug.”
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“Recently, the "(500) Days of Summer" star gave us an exclusive tour of the side project that has turned him into a shutterbug for the Internet age: hitRECord. org.”
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“Harry Morgan has a blast as a Weegee-style shutterbug.”
“Often, Asians are only cast if the characters are specifically Asian, often leading to stereotypes like Japanese shutterbug tourists; the owners of restaurants, corner stores, or dry cleaners; exchange students; Asian gang members; martial artists/ninjas/samurais; or anything that would seem "funnier" if done with a thick Asian accent.”
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“If you're an iPhone shutterbug—it wouldn't be surprising, as the majority of photos on Flickr are taken with an iPhone 4—the camera alone is well worth the upgrade.”
“Upon arriving, I immediately spotted The New York Times's resident shutterbug Bill Cunningham snapping photos of chic septugarians and well-heeled editors seated front row.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shutterbug’.
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Words For Novel (Part 2)
fable, sprite, syphilitic, anvil, wonderstruck, vertigo, bridled, tufted, fettered, savvy, tweed fedora, tryst and 255 more...
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Open and Shut
open, shut, open and shut, can opener, shut up, shutter, opening, shut-in, open door, open sesame, open-and-shut, shutoff and 47 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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Words that are fun to say
stipple, carbuncle, dongle, exemplar, misbegotten, gigolo, salubrious, jupiter, propinquity, piglet, tobogganing, supercilious and 309 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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Public List: One Word Wonders
Every now and then I run across a Wordie who has but a single word listed. For no reason whatsoever, I decided I'd start keeping a list of them.
yusufa95, ach!, parth, nitom, shutterbug, hungry, aerodynamic, untonsured, zephyr, babs
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