PS: I do distinctly remember my mother coaxing me to use my right hand when I wanted to use my left. How that translates into emoji-talk is above my pay grade. It's your gut that tells you if they're "left-looking" or not. In my experience, sinister eyes can look left, right, or right at you. I would have called it "shifty eyes", and I've only ever seen it pointed the other way, but the usage is familiar. The Persian expression chap chap negah kardan, literally to look left-left at, could be translated as "to give the stinkeye" as David suggests above, but I think a more neutral translation is "to look askance at" The post is not referring to the rolling eyes emoji, or to any emoji, but to an emoticon. Her date interrogated her: "Did you actually just make an emoji with your face?" Īccording to the narrative, that meal was the last she ever saw of her date!Ī very old Iranian idiom: "Chap chap behm negah nakon" - sp? - literally "Don't look at me left left" - meaning more or less, "Don't give me the stink-eye." In the course of ordering her meal, the server proposed something she didn't like, and she stuck out her tongue. It was a woman's first-person narrative relating her experience of having been invited out to dinner on a "first date" with a new guy. again! eyeroll emoji" Ī more subtle variation on this phenomenon was reported in a story I read (in the New Yorker?) over a dozen years ago, when emojis first became widely popular. My understanding is that this emoji has nothing to do with "avoiding eye contact," but is a simple EYE ROLL.įor example: "I got to work late because I left my metro pass at home.
If we're talking about this emoji, then I've not been using it that way, either! Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comicsĮrr… that's not how I've been using it these past 13 years.The next day's strip continues the thread: In Snapchat 🏆 Trophy Case, Eyes emoji appear after the user saves snaps to the private “My Eyes Only” folder in their memories.In the Dumbing of Age strip from a few days ago, Amber has been traumatized by the violence associated with a kidnapping, which has left one of her friends in a coma:įor those who don't speak emoji, " "guilty" or perhaps evasive for some other reason. It could also mean something is sus, which is short for suspicious. Interesting fact: 👀 "Eyes" emoji is associated with the number 2. Metaphorically, the emoji will describe the ambiguity of the situation, for example, instead of the phrase "It's not what it seems at first sight!" tell lies or gossip by acting as "running eyes" in the text and announce some juicy details. Also emoji 👀 "Eyes" in the text will help to draw ⚠️ Attention and show 🫢 Amazement. For example, when you text your friend that you are currently admiring a beautiful 👗 Dress in a boutique window. In addition to the emoji, use themed emoticons, and in the latter case, include 🍿 "Popcorn" next to it.Īlso text the emoji in a straightforward way. Use emoji to let your interlocutor know that you are waiting for an answer to your question tell your colleague that you are keeping an ongoing project under control let others know that you are following with interest the scandal unfolding in the press. Specifically, instead of the words "look" and "see." It also represents sneaking, surveillance, and 🕵 Stalking, conveys intrigue, and metaphorically denotes attention, anticipation, and tension.Īre you watching out the 🪟 Window as your boyfriend flirts with a 👩 Stranger? The emoji eyes sent to his phone will say, "I see everything!" Or maybe you've been arranged to be followed? Emoji 👀 "Eyes" along with an image of a 😰 Face in a cold sweat will eloquently tell about it. The emoji's meaning is related to 🧑 humans and their bodies, and is often used in a literal sense. The symbol was approved in 2010 and published in Unicode 6.0. On most platforms, the dark pupils of the eyes point to the left, but sometimes stare point-blank. The 👀 Eyes emoji are a pair of wide-open eyes in cartoon or comic book style.
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