Crossword clues for smiley
smiley
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also smily, "inclined to smile," 1848, from smile (n.) + -y (2). Smiley-face (n.) is from 1981; as a computer icon from 1987.
Wiktionary
a. cheerful and happy; smiling. n. 1 (context rare English) A simplified representation of a smiling face. 2 (context Internet English) A sequence of keyboard characters used to represent a person's mood or emotion, especially Unsupported titles/Colon right paren or Unsupported titles/Colon hyphen right paren or other smiling depiction. 3 (context slang English) Having one's throat slit from side to side. 4 (context rare English) An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end. 5 (context South Africa English) A roasted sheep's head.
WordNet
n. an emoticon of a smiling face
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Wikipedia
A smiley (sometimes simply called a happy or smiling face) is a stylized representation of a smiling humanoid face, an important part of popular culture. The classic form designed in 1963 comprises a yellow circle with two black dots representing eyes and a black arc representing the mouth (☺). On the Internet and in other plain text communication channels, the emoticon form (sometimes also called the smiley-face emoticon) has traditionally been most popular, typically employing a colon and a right parenthesis to form sequences like :^), :), or (: that resemble a smiling face when viewed after rotation through 90 degrees. "Smiley" is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon. The smiley has been referenced in nearly all areas of Western culture including music, movies, and art.
The plural form "smilies" is commonly used, but the variant spelling "smilie" is not as common as the "y" spelling.
Smiley is an American-British film made in 1956 and set in Australia. It tells the story of a young Australian boy who is determined to buy a bicycle for four pounds. Along the way he gets into many misadventures. It was based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Moore Raymond who also co-wrote the film.
Smiley is a 2012 American psychological slasher film directed by Michael Gallagher and made by Level 10 Films. The film stars were Caitlin Gerard, Melanie Papalia, Keith David, Shane Dawson, Andrew James Allen, Toby Turner, and Liza Weil. The film was released on October 12, 2012.
Tavis Nedd, better known as Smiley, is a reggae artist. Smiley was born in Aruba in 1980. He has been making music since he was seventeen years old. He moved to the Netherlands in 2000. For three years he toured with the popular Dutch reggae band Out of Many.1
Smiley is a surname which may refer to:
Andrei Tiberiu Maria (born 27 July 1983 in Pitești), better known by his stage name Smiley is a Romanian singer, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is part of the band Simplu and has developed a solo career. In 2013, he won " Best Romanian Act" during the MTV Europe Music Awards held in Amsterdam. He had been nominated as a solo act three times for the same award in 2008, 2009 and 2011 and twice in 2006 and 2007 as part of Simplu. He is also part of the Romanian Euro-House project Radio Killer where he is known as Killer 1. As of November 2013, he is the new Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF Romania. He is also a television personality having hosted Românii au talent for four consecutive seasons (2011–2014) and being a coach in Vocea României also for three consecutive seasons (2011–2013).
Smiley was an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) that lived in captivity in the Maritime Museum of Gothenburg, Sweden. Smiley arrived in Gothenburg from the United States in 1924, at approximately the age of two, and died on 9 February 1987. She received the name "Smiley" in 1970 when the newspaper Expressen asked readers for appropriate names for the alligator. At the time of her death at the age of 65, she held the record of being the oldest living alligator in captivity, an honor that landed her a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. (There are, however, records of alligators that have lived longer since her death). At the time of her death Smiley weighed and measured , which is small for North American alligators (males can grow to a length and weight double that). Only after her death and necropsy did doctors establish that Smiley was a female.
Smiley died after it was decided to turn down the heat in her pond to save money. As a result of the lower temperature, the alligator fell ill for two weeks.
In 1990, three years after Smiley's death, she was once again put on display, this time as a cast made by taxidermist Erling Haack for the Gothenburg Natural History Museum. The cast is made out of armored plaster painted with oil paint. The eyes were built with double lenses created by Hendén Optik AB. Smiley's physical remains are preserved in the museum's scientific collection, catalogued as number 17246.
Like many other celebrities who worked and lived in Gothenburg, Smiley has a tram named after her, the M29 859 tram.
Usage examples of "smiley".
Smiley guarded Daniel in a little box latticed which he carried bytimes to the village for some bet.
Against this backdrop of mounting pressure and frustration, Wal-Mart waged a site fight in the South-Central Los Angeles community of Inglewood that damaged its image worldwide by revealing the sneer beneath the smiley face it presents to the public.
He was a famous tough guy, the founder and still majority stockholder in the public relations film of Great-house and Smiley, which specialized in putting the most favorable interpretations on the activities of Caribbean and Latin American dictatorships, of Bahamian gambling casinos, of Liberian and Panamanian tanker fleets, of several Central Intelligence Agency fronts around the world, of gangster-dominated unions such as the International Brotherhood of Abrasives and Adhesives Workers and the Amalgamated Fuel Handlers, of international conglomerates such as RAMJAC and Texas Fruit, and on and on.
Land Rover when the door of the cottage opened and Stourie Smiley came out to meet him, followed by his brother, Pete.
When she’d realized that, she had almost turned around and walked out, but the secretary had called her name, and the doctor (Sharon, her nametag read, with a blue smiley face in the ‘o’, how’s that for a big bleah?
To Guillam, Haydon was of that unrepeatable, fading Circus generation, to which his parents and George Smiley also belonged - exclusive and in Haydon's case blueblooded - which had lived a dozen leisured lives to his own hasty one, and still, thirty years later, gave the Circus its dying flavour of adventure.
Hamburg had no Claus Kretzschmar, but one of the Schleswig-Holstein directories had a Kretzschmar who lived in a place Smiley had never heard of.
It was full of stuff only an insurance adjustor would have: a calculator with more tiny buttons than a leprechaun’s dress boots, notepads, coffee-stained folders, useless little calendars to stick on your fridge, and pens with smiley faces on them.
Smiley reached the place by way of a winding wooden staircase, passing on his ponderous climb several aged hand-drawn signs pulling at their drawing-pins and a stack of brown toiletry boxes belonging to a chemist's shop next door.
She pings a smiley emoticon off Wednesday's open channel, raising a flickering grin in return.
Longarm was even more certain someone ad been fibbing about that charred body registered as Tyger when he opened a message from his home office to discover his fellow deputies, Smiley and Dutch, had found two other rooming house registers that claimed, in different handwriting, Calvert Tyger had spent some recent nights in other parts of Denver at the same time, before somehow moving on alive and well as far as any fool records showed, So some damned body, for some damned reason, seemed to be going around checking in and out for the night under the assumed name of a wanted man.
The Smiley Faces were yellow with lemon-flavored food coloring, and the tiny black dots of the eyes were cheap but potent acid brewed in a lab near Atlanta.
His nerves were all over the place and on the drive down he had touched ninety before Smiley sharply told him to go steady.
Then we hooks up one them chickens and throw it out there and we sits back and has us a drink or two, me all the time talkin trash 'bout that five hundred dollar and Smiley grinnin like he does.
As they walked out of the Circus side by side Smiley wished the janitors good night with unusual terseness, and in the pub in Wardour Street he said 'I've been sacked,' and that was all.