😈

😈 Smiling Face with Horns

Also known as: Devil, Devil Horns, Happy Devil, Purple Devil, Red Devil

Unicode: U+1F608

Description

A face, usually purple, with devil horns, a wide grin, and eyes and eyebrows scrunched downward in the same manner as 😠 Angry Face on most platforms. Google’s design is red and Facebook’s has black horns and green eyes. Commonly used to convey mischief, naughtiness, and excitement or excellence (slang, bad or wicked). May also represent devils or devilish behavior, especially around Halloween. More playful and suggestive than its impish counterpart, 👿 Angry Face With Horns. Google and Samsung previously depicted orangish-red characters, with Google once featuring a frown and Samsung a sharp snaggletooth.

Image Variants

Smiling Face with Horns 3D

3D

Smiling Face with Horns Color

Color

Smiling Face with Horns Flat

Flat

Smiling Face with Horns High Contrast

High Contrast

Version Information

Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0

Keywords

facefairy talefantasyhornssmilesmiling face with horns

Shortcodes

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Additional Information

Category:Emoticons -> Faces
Definition:

A smiling devil-like face. Has an evil-looking smiling face with inward facing eyebrows. In Apple’s artwork, this appears purple, and nearly http://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-horns/

Adjectives:
  • Provoking fear terror
  • Badly behaved
  • Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
  • Bad; tending to misbehave or act badly.
  • Naughtily or annoyingly playful
  • Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
  • Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
  • Showing wickedness typical of a devil.
  • Cheerful and happy; smiling.
  • Causing irritation or annoyance
  • Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
  • Causing vexation, irritation or annoyance.
Verbs:
  • Change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
  • Cause fear in
  • To disturb with fear.
  • To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Nouns:
  • A happy face expression using mouth, but without producing voice.
  • A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the mouth.
  • A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.
  • A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
  • Conscious or subconscious facial muscular movement conveying mirth or pleasure
  • An upwards movement of the sides of the mouth that indicates happiness or satisfaction.
  • A legendary creature
  • (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
  • A brownie/brounie or urisk or brùnaidh, ùruisg, or gruagach is a legendary creature popular in folklore around Scotland and England.
  • An elf is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore.
  • A Gremlin is a fantastic creature commonly depicted as mischievous and mechanically oriented, with a specific interest in aircraft.
  • Pixies are mythical creatures of folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the high moorland areas around Devon and Cornwall, suggesting some Celtic origin for the belief and name.