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Vt. The act of misleading or tricking someone while communicating via email or Messenger, by using emoticons to imply that statements are not true or not as serious as they really are.
Jane's boss is emoticonning her. He emails here about head office plans RE her team, but then ends his sentences with winks. So, Jane is convinced that all these big plans are just talk.
–adjective 1. pertaining to or using emoticons frequently to express emotions, feelings or thoughts in messages. 2. overuse of emoticons.
"The last text message I received was so emoticonical."
1. Using excessive emoticons in emails, chats, or on social networking sites. 2. Using emoticons that are the opposite of how you truly feel.
1. Teresa is always emoticonning and puts every emoticon she knows after every statment she makes, :))) :D :P :0) ;) !!!!! 2. I am probably going to have to do some emoticonning and :) and :D when I email Teresa, because I actually hate her and think she is a stupid whore.
The antithesis of intelligent writing.
OMG XD lol ;) i <3 emoticons :P
A means of expressing emotion via Internet chat rooms and private messages. (Note: Do not use emoticons unironically, unless you're speaking to someone who doesn't understand your language.)
:) happy :( unhappy :D overjoyed :C profoundly unhappy (^-^) ecstatic anime fan
any of a series of characters used by people to represent emotions that cannot easily be easily expressed during the course of a chat session they are engaged in to avoid the necessity of expressing emotion face to face.
He added the emoticon :) to the message so they would understand he was just kidding.