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smiley face, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈsmʌɪli feɪs|, U.S. |ˈsmaɪli ˌfeɪs|
[‹ smiley adj. + face n.]
1. A round, cartoon-style representation of a smiling face, originally and chiefly black on yellow.
The design was originally devised by Harvey Ball, U.S. commercial artist, in 1963, for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company (Worcester, Mass.), as the logo of a corporate friendship campaign. It is freq. used as a symbol of hope, peace, solidarity, etc., esp. in youth culture (associated esp. in the United States with the 1970s). It is also specifically associated (chiefly in the United Kingdom) with the Acid House movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
1972Times 1 Dec. 20/3 China—new from France with the Smiley face in black on yellow. In packs of four: cups and saucers, {pstlg}2.55; tea plates {pstlg}2.45. 1986D. Leavitt Lost Lang. Cranes (1987) 198 Brad's eye roved the room, which had recently taken on a second identity as an art gallery and was filled with murals depicting the deconstruction of the smiley face. 1989Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 15 Feb. (Style section) 18 Inside the throbbing, strobe-lit Acid House clubs,..nothing symbolizes the endless ‘don't worry be happy’ mentality more succinctly than Smiley Face... The non-stop grin..becomes explicitly linked to the use of the now-popular club drug Ecstasy. 1993R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 50 The image of the fetus...made a bizarre appearance at the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympic Games,..flashing a fixed white grin as inane as a 70s Smiley-face sticker. 1999Dallas Morning News (Electronic ed.) 10 Aug. The Worcester Historical Museum, in exhibit notes, reported that ‘the smiley face came to symbolize mindless optimism and bland conformity’.
2. In electronic communications: a symbol which (viewed sideways) represents a smiling face, formed with keyboard characters and used to indicate that the writer is pleased or joking. In later use: any of a number of different ‘faces’ so represented, indicating a variety of emotions; an emoticon. Cf. smiley n. 1.
1988InfoWorld 22 Feb. 17/3 E-mail users therefore use a stilted, but necessary, convention when expressing humor. It's a symbol called the smiley face. 1994St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 15 Aug. The lack of intonation and other cues used to convey irony, sarcasm and self-deprecation in speech can lead to misunderstandings on the screen. (This is where a well-placed smiley-face or two comes in handy.) 2000USA Today (Electronic ed.) 13 Nov. (heading) Smiley faces in e-mail go way beyond:-)... Internet users themselves make up the smiley faces, better known as emoticons. |