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Emoticons are a subset of 'Smilies', small symbols composed of
chars to indicate the writer's state of mind. They are used to
express emotions, indicate humour, irony and the like. I will not
enlarge on the descriptive Smilies.
A lot of emoticons have more than one possible interpretation,
for those the meaning has to be taken from context.
| :-) :) |
happy, smile; funny |
| ;-) | wink; ironic |
| :-() 8-| |
surprised |
| 8-o |-o :-O |
very surprised, amazed |
| :-( :( |
sad, frowning |
| :-* :-# |
kiss |
| =:-) | dickhead |
| :-| | disgusted, bored |
| :'-( :~-( |
crying crying (doesn't show depending on font) |
| :-X :-|| :-# |
"my lips are sealed" |
| >:-) | scheming |
| (-: | left-handed smiley |
| :-& | biting tongue |
| :-b :-p :-Þ |
sticking out tongue |
| %-) | stared at screen too long, cross-eyed |
| #-) | stayed up too late |
| :-] | biting lip |
| :-| | out of words |
| >:-( | angry |
| :-D :D |
laughing, big grin |
| :-/ :/ |
smirk; sceptical |
| |-) | sleeping; blind (to spot sth. obvious) |
| ,-) '-) |
one-eyed wink |
| :-O | "Wow!" |
| :-c | unhappy |
| :-> | funny, happy, grinning, "hey hey" |
| >:) | mischievous grin |
| :-} | smirk |
| :-8 | lying (speaking through both sides of mouth) |
| :-J | tongue in cheek |
| :-C | unbelieving (dropped jaw) |
| :-< | forlorn, very sad |
| O:-) | angel (at heart) |
| :-*) :-*> |
drunken; clown |
| ;-( | crying |
| >:-> | sarcastic, devilish grin |
| :-7 | wry statement |
| :-@ | screaming |
| :-o | surprised, yawn, "Uh oh!" |
| |-I | sleeping |
| :-I :-| |
indifferent smile, not happy, not sad |
| :-)' | drooling |
| :-s | bizarre comment, sarcastic |
| :-e | disappointed |
| ,-} | wry and winking |
| >:-> | leering, devilish grin |
| ~:o | baby (or behaving like one) |
| :'-) | crying (out of happiness) |
| ;-@ | swearing, angry |
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