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Self Day at the OED.

In the OED side-bar this morning, 3 out of 4 newly published entries begin with "self-":

"Self-applause" — the meaning is self-evident — has been around since the 1600s:

1625 Robert Bolton Some General Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God 126 To proclaime many times with great noise, and selfe-applause, their owne idle malignant forgeries and fancies.
1678 Andrew Marvell Remarks upon a late disingenuous discourse, writ by one T.D. under the pretence de causa Dei, and of answering Mr. John Howe's letter and postscript of God's prescience, &c., affirming, as the Protestant docrine, that GOd doth by efficacious influence universally move and determine men to all their actions, even to those that are most wicked by a Protestant 74 It's Insolent Boasting and Self-applause upon no occasion.

Oh, the titles they had then!

There's also "self-applausive":

1915 S. H. Adams Little Miss Grouch iii. 84 He burst into a paroxysm of self-applausive mirth over his joke.
1941 Booth Tarkington Fighting Littles xiii. 118 The dancers..dropped sittingly, side by side, upon a sofa, screaming with self-applausive laughter.

Hey, "Fighting Littles" looks good — "sittingly, side by side, upon a sofa, screaming with self-applausive..." — especially if you like weird locutions in pursuit of alliteration. But Kirkus Reviews has this pan from 1941:

Let's take Mr. Tarkington around and introduce him to quantities of the nice young things growing up today. I happen to like them, and to think they have more good qualities than he recognizes. He knows his own period- I wish he'd stick to it, for his portrayal of adolescents of the 1940's is distinctly second hand. He cannot streamline Seventeen, reverse the roles (making his Billy Baxter a girl just a bit older and Jane a boy, and insufferable), and make it convincing....

Interestingly dreaming of gender role reversal in the 1941.

"Self-proclaimed" is — obviously — what is proclaimed about oneself, "without authorization or endorsement." This has been around since the 1700s:

1780 Ess. Mod. Martyrs 9 These are the self-created martyrs, the self-proclaimed martyrs, who court the public favour.

Yeah, I know the type.

They've got a 2015 quote there too:

2015 J. Silverman Terms of Service 122 Upworthy is a self-proclaimed liberal site.

"Self-ionization" — sorry, it's not about people. It's about molecules. Doing what-all with themselves.   How'd those little characters get in on Self Day"

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