smiley facen.

Brit.

/ˈsmʌɪlɪ feɪs/, U.S.

/ˈsmaɪli ˌfeɪs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: smiley adj., face n.

Etymology: < smiley adj. + face n.

Originally U.S.

1. A simple graphic representation of a smiling face; spec. a round, cartoon-style face, originally and chiefly black on yellow.The black and yellow design was originally devised by Harvey Ball, U.S. commercial artist, in 1963, for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company (Worcester, Massachusetts), as the logo of a corporate friendship campaign. It is frequently 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.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > others

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1957 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 8 Sept. (Family Weekly Mag.) 14/1 Tape a paper plate to a mop head for a face, arranging the string strands on each side for hair. Draw a big smiley face on the plate!

1971 Beaver County (Pa.) Times 15 Sept. (Advertising Suppl.) A happy face lamp with the new smiley face.

1989 Chicago 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.

1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 50 A fixed white grin as inane as a 70s Smiley-face sticker.

2005 S. Booth One Last Breath xxxviii. 534 Someone had painted a smiley face on their wheelie bin.

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.

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1988 InfoWorld 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.

1994 St. 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.)

2000 USA 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.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	smiley face
释义	smiley facen. Brit. /ˈsmʌɪlɪ feɪs/, U.S. /ˈsmaɪli ˌfeɪs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: smiley adj., face n. Etymology: < smiley adj. + face n. Originally U.S. 1. A simple graphic representation of a smiling face; spec. a round, cartoon-style face, originally and chiefly black on yellow.The black and yellow design was originally devised by Harvey Ball, U.S. commercial artist, in 1963, for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company (Worcester, Massachusetts), as the logo of a corporate friendship campaign. It is frequently 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1957 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 8 Sept. (Family Weekly Mag.) 14/1 Tape a paper plate to a mop head for a face, arranging the string strands on each side for hair. Draw a big smiley face on the plate! 1971 Beaver County (Pa.) Times 15 Sept. (Advertising Suppl.) A happy face lamp with the new smiley face. 1989 Chicago 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. 1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 50 A fixed white grin as inane as a 70s Smiley-face sticker. 2005 S. Booth One Last Breath xxxviii. 534 Someone had painted a smiley face on their wheelie bin. 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. ΚΠ 1988 InfoWorld 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. 1994 St. 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.) 2000 USA 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. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1957
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