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emoticonic

emoticonic adjective: relating to emoticons.

Adjective

emoticonic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to emoticons.
    • The fame comes from its acronymic, telegraphic (sometimes telepathic), and emoticonic informality. What too many online writers fail to realize is that there are formal requirements for the most effective, most economical informal style.2010, Roy Peter Clark, The Glamour of Grammar
    • These rules are shared by the community, that is, mutually manifest to all its members. In the case of the emoticon, it demands emoticonic literacy from the users beyond the simplest well-known compositions (Reid 1994:31–32, Watson 1996). Therefore, it is very likely that the authors of the...2011, Francisco Yus, Cyberpragmatics: Internet-mediated communication in context

Origin of emoticonic

From emoticon + -ic.

Questions about emoticonic

What does emoticonic mean?
Emoticonic means relating to emoticons.
What part of speech is emoticonic?
Emoticonic is an adjective.

Words near emoticonic in the dictionary

  1. emoter
  2. emoters
  3. emotes
  4. emotic
  5. emoticon
  6. emoticonic
  7. emoticonized
  8. emoticonlike
  9. emoticons
  10. emoting
  11. emotion

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