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cyberhug

noun

Etymology

From cyber- + hug.

  1. derived from *hugiz✻ — “mind, thought, sense”
  2. derived from hugga — “to comfort, console”
  3. prefixed as cyberhug — “cyber + hug”

Definitions

  1. A hug expressed through text or emoticon between computer users.

    • Kinesthetic feedback has not yet developed to the point where a cyberhug is equivalent to the real thing.
    • Someday I'll thank her in person with a big hug instead of only a cyberhug.
    • Sometimes you give people a little touch on the arm and a cyberhug is one way...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cyberhug. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA