smiley
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈsmaɪli/
- Texting
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emoticono
- Um, I sent a smiley face.
- smiley face
- smiley face rating
Like if you if you paint a smiley on a rock, the rock becomes happy in our eyes.
- Like if you if you paint a smiley on a rock, the rock becomes happy in our eyes.
- They have tiny little strawberries with smiley faces and little pots of jam and then little bits of toast with jam on and it says spread the love and then a little bow and some little buttons.
- There is sleepy, weepy and smiley is what it says.
- And then I put a power hand and a smiley a face with with, with hearts.
- Aza Hussain never laughed so much with eight smiley faces.
- This is what happens through potato smileys fucking, by the way.
- I said, well, the first smileys he goes, oh, they're shit.
- Let's maybe let's compare this to, I don't know, like another smiley in the morning.
Examples
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I might make my own potato smiley like that.
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I should adjust my attitude, put on a smiley face, and get over it.
Fiction book (1998) -
Santa, look forward and put on a smiley face.
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When life is hard, l pick up that card with the smiley face -
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And then I make these little smiley faces on the pancakes.
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Hey, you got any more of those smiley face stickers?
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A smiley face emoticon?
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I could sense her outrage, although with her strange, upturned smiley mouth and round cheeks, she just looked happy.
Fiction book (1996) -
Folks signed in with funny messages: Iva Lou with smiley faces; the Tuckett twins with Bible verses.
Fiction book (2000) -
I always use a smiley face to brighten up my friends' messages.
Synonyms
31
3.3
A small picture used in messages to show a friendly face
15
3.0
Small pictures people put in messages to show a feeling or idea
13
3.4
A picture of a face made with keyboard characters to show feeling in messages
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7.2
A small icon used in messages to show a feeling
How Friendly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Smiley comes from the simple word smile and the ending -y, so it means a small 'smile' or something that shows a smile. That's why a smiley is a little picture or symbol people add to messages to show they are happy or friendly.