smileyn.
/ˈsmʌɪli/, U.S. /ˈsmaɪli/ 1. = smiley face n. 2.
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1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 30 Jan. 51 A convention for indicating a joke has become popular with users of electronic mail: the insertion of ‘smileys’.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 17/2 Those newer forms of emotional punctuation called ‘smileys’ or ‘emoticons’—vaguely irritating attempts to supply a sideways facial expression at the close of an e-mail paragraph.
2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 28 Sept. Use Smileys to express emotion... :-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something. :-I Indifferent smiley.
2. Chiefly with capital initial. = smiley face n. 1.
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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others
Samian letter1616
A1651
Tetragrammaton1656
arrow1744
arrowhead1832
wind1847
scarlet letter1850
sun wheel1865
sacred axe1866
rising sun1868
crow's foot1871
Easter rabbit1881
hexagram1882
sun sign1882
Easter bunny1900
Staffordshire knot1908
sinsigna1914
tectiform1921
padma1954
smiley face1957
happy face1971
lexigram1973
emoticon1988
smiley1989
1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 11 Feb. f1 The kids mimick the peace-and-love era, chant ‘aciieed’, and wear Smileys, those big yellow smile buttons from the '70s.
1996 Independent on Sunday 26 May The 16th-century Griffin Inn in Fletching, East Sussex is much enthused about in pub guides, with each entry..festooned with stars, crowns, little beds, animals and smileys.
2000 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 27 Oct. Photographs, notes, Smileys, and newspaper cuttings are also across the studio wall.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
smileyadj.
/ˈsmʌɪli/, U.S. /ˈsmaɪli/ 1.
a. Inclined to smile; readily smiling.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective] > inclined to smile
smiley1848
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. x All kind o' smily round the lips An' teary round the lashes.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 120 How they contrived to be so laughy and smiley on pumpkin-seeds and cold water I cannot conjecture.
1969 D. Francis Enquiry vii. 97 It's your eyes... Dark and sort of smiley and sad.
1976 H. Kemelman Wednesday Rabbi got Wet iii. 21 A short man..with a round head and smiley face.
b. Smiling; cheerful.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective]
smilinga1400
smileful1609
subrident1826
smiley1970
1970 Sunday Times 8 Feb. 15/2 If the instruction wasn't nice and smiley, it'd upset me.
1972 Times 1 Dec. 20/2 China—new from France with the smiley face in black on yellow.
1976 R. B. Parker Promised Land (1977) vii. 35 I..said goodby with smily pleasant overtones in my voice.
2. Caused by or causing a smile.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective] > caused by a smile
smiley1974
the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adjective] > causing a smile
smiley1974
1974 Times 22 Jan. 11/5 For smiley lines which are too deep, just paint out the start of them with a highlight.
1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 52/2 To the extent that he includes these fast, cheerful numbers and smiley oddities such as Cole Porter's ‘True Love’ and the impenetrable fable ‘Crackerbox Palace’, Harrison seems hoping to achieve fresh popularity.
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