Home › Words › S › shutterbugshutterbug/ˈʃʌtəbʌɡ/shutterbug means A person who makes a hobby of photography.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, shutterbug ranks #1,198 of 42,747 for Qualifying.shutterbug is pronounced /ˈʃʌtəbʌɡ/.EtymologyFrom shutter + bug, from their tendency to work the camera's shutter frequently.nounA person who makes a hobby of photography.e.g.“Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.” — 1992, Popular Mechanics, volume 169, number 11, page 18:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).