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Eg, a smiley
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emoticon
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An emoticon , (, or ) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks , numbers and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood. The word is a portmanteau of emotion and icon , and is an example of metacommunication ...
Usage examples of emoticon.
She pings a smiley emoticon off Wednesday's open channel, raising a flickering grin in return.
He sent her a complicated burst of emoticons conveying a combination of disgust, weariness, annoyance, and impatience.
He sent her a compli cated burst of emoticons conveying a combination of disgust, weariness, annoyance, and impatience.
The black-framed glasses remind her of emoticons, those snippets of playschool emotional code cobbled up from keyboard symbols to produce sideways cartoon faces.