APPENDIX L

The Unofficial Smiley/Emoticon Dictionary

Disclaimer: I did not invent any of these myself! They were sent to me by friends on the Internet, who had gotten them from their friends, and so on. Also, please note that many smileys can have more than one meaning.

To add a smiley to this list, send me email! afc1@cde.psu.edu

:-) Your basic smiley. This smiley is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix

;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark. More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.

:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something.

:-I Indifferent smiley. Better than a frowning smiley but not quite as good as a happy smiley.

:-o Wow!

:-| Grim

:=| Baboon

:-v Speaking

:-V Shouting

:-w Speak with forked tongue

:-r Sticking tongue out

:-* Oops!

:-T Keeping a straight face

:-D Said with a smile

:-x Kiss kiss

:-[ Pouting

:-X A big wet kiss!

:-Y A quiet aside

>-< Absolutely livid!

|-{ "Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown?)

:-} "Thish wine tashted pretty good"

8-] "wow, maaan"

8-o "Omigod!!"

:-, "Hmmmm"

:-c Real unhappy

:-C Just totally unbelieving

:-B Drooling

:- , Smirk

:-|| Anger

'- ) Wink

;-) Sardonic incredulity

%-<I> Drunk with laughter

:-" Pursing lips

:-# My lips are sealed

:-P Tongue hanging out in anticipation

8-| Eyes wide with surprise

&-| Tearful

|~ ( "Someone just busted my nose"

:^D "Great! I like it!"

B-D "Serves you right, dummy!!"

:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a :-)

>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.

>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Here are some of the less common ones:

(-: User is left-handed

%-) User has been staring at a computer screen for 15 hours straight

:*) User is drunk

[:] User is a robot

8-) User is wearing sunglasses

B:-) Sunglasses on head

::-) User wears normal glasses

B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses

8:-) User is a little girl

:-)-8 User is a big girl

:-{) User has a mustache

:-{} User wears lipstick

{;-) User wears a toupee

}:-) Toupee in an updraft

:-[ User is a vampire

:-E Bucktoothed vampire

:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing

:-7 User just made a wry statement

:-* User just ate something sour

;-( User is crying

;-) User is so happy, s/he is crying

:-@ User is screaming

:-# User wears braces

:^) User has a broken nose

:<) User is from an Ivy League school

:-& User is tongue-tied

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office

':-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning

,:-) Same thing, other side

|-I User is asleep

|-o User is yawning/snoring

:-Q User is a smoker

:-? User smokes a pipe

O-) Megaton Man on Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least!)

:-P Nyahhh!

:-S User just made an incoherent statement

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

:-X User's lips are sealed

:-C User is really bummed

:-/ User is skeptical

C=:-) User is a chef

@= User is pro-nuclear war

*< :-) User is wearing a Santa Claus hat

:-o Uh oh!

(8-o It's Mr. Bill!

*:o) And Bozo the Clown!

3:] Pet smiley

3:[ Mean pet smiley

d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat

E-:-) User is a ham radio operator

:-9 User is licking his/her lips

%-6 User is braindead

[:-) User is wearing a walkman

(:I User is an egghead

< :-I User is a dunce

K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beanie

@:-) User is wearing a turban

:-)) User has a double chin

:-0 No yelling! (Quiet lab)

:-: Mutant smiley

The invisible smiley

.-) User has only one eye

,-) Ditto, but he's winking

X-( User just died

C=}>;*{0)) Mega-smiley. A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft, with a mustache and a double chin

:-' Smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco

:-1 Smiley bland face

:-! Another bland smiley

:-$ Smiley with its mouth wired shut

:-6 Smiley after eating something sour

8-) Smiley swimmer

:-* Smiley after eating something bitter

:-& Tongue-tied smiley

:-0 Smiley orator

(:-( Unsmiley frowning

=:-) Smiley punk rocker

=:-( (Real punk rockers don't smile)

:-o Smiley singing national anthem

:-p Smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!)

:-[ Unsmiley blockhead

:-] Smiley blockhead

:-} Smiley variation on a theme

:-{ Ditto

{:-) Smiley with its hair parted in the middle

}:-) Above in an updraft

g-) Smiley with pince-nez glasses

:-\ Undecided smiley

:-/ Lefty undecided smiley

:-| "Have an ordinary day" smiley

:-< Real sad smiley

:-x "My lips are sealed" smiley

:-v Talking head smiley

0-) Smiley cyclops

:-) Ha ha

|-) Hee hee

:-> Hey hey

|-D Ho ho

:-( Boo boo

:-I Hmm hmm

:-o Uh oh

:-P Nyah nyah

:-P Yuk

8 Infinity

~~:-( Net flame

X-( Net suicide

>:-I Net startrek

3:o[ Net pets

%\v Picasso

%-| Been working all night

C|:-= Charlie Chaplin

=|:-)= Abe Lincoln

:-W Speak with forked tongue

:-@ "I swear"

:*) Ed McMahon

:-7 Smokes a pipe

C:# Football player

:-)8 User wears a bowtie

:-() "I stubbed my toe!"

:-( ) "You stepped on my toe!'

:-( ) "You backed your car over my toe!"

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: *> Web cat

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Note: a lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smileys:

:] Gleep, a friendly midget smiley

:) Happy

:> Hmm, let me think

:D Laughter

:I Hmm, not funny!

:( Sad

:[ Real downer!

:< What pretenses!

:{ Oh boy, the headmaster!

:O Yelling

; ( Crying

[] Hugs and

:* Kisses

Last modified on 4/16/97

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