The smiley is a green emoji with a nauseous face. It belongs to the category of smileys indicating the signs or symptoms of illnesses and the different states of discomfort. It is indeed listed in the category smileys and emotions, in the sub-category Sick faces. Introduced in 2016, it is a highly qualified emoji that is part of Unicode 9.0. Its code point is U+1F922. This smiley should not be confused with the vomiting smiley.
Nauseous Face Smiley: Meaning and Use
It's a green smiley with pursed lips and bulging cheeks, as if vomiting. On most platforms, the blank stare and lowered eyebrows indicate the impression of unease. We even notice on some of these platforms a gradient of green colors. Which accentuates the feeling of disgust. It indicates the sight of disgusting things that can cause nausea, psychological or physical.
Literally, the nauseous face smiley is used to indicate a state of physical ill-being caused by: excessive alcohol consumption, food poisoning, an infectious disease (flu) or an activity inducing the urge to vomit (ex : boating).
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In the figurative sense, it is used to display disgust in front of a behavior, an attitude, or to express an unpleasant feeling (eg disgust for food). Indeed, it is generally used in its indirect sense in order to express disgust for someone or something and the fact of being sick. It can be used, for example, for something that we find abominable: the way someone behaves (an act of racism) or dresses.
In terms of the level of disgust, the intensity of the nauseous smiley face is less strong compared to that of the vomiting face smiley.
Nauseated face emoji: other names
Here are the other names of this smiley:
- gagging smiley
- heartache smiley
- smiley face sick
- smiley face green
- disgusted smiley
- seasick smiley
- disgusted smiley
- addicted smiley
- green smiley
Examples of the use of the nauseous face smiley
Here are some popular phrases with this smiley for use with messaging and the web:
- You make me sick!
- I feel uncomfortable !
- It's disgusting !
- I am seasick !
- Yesterday I saw a dead rat. I almost threw up, yuck!
- It smells so bad!
- I need to vomit!
- My boyfriend cheated on me with my girlfriend! It hurt me very badly.
- I'm not on my plate!
Emoji popularity index over the years
The popularity of this smiley has seen a significant increase in recent years. The trend of its popularity index increased in 2019, while it converges in 2020 and 2021.
In order to find this smiley, you can use the following keywords to find it: disgusted face, nauseated face, face, nausea.
Each smiley displays a singularity that makes it unique. However, an emoji or smiley can have multiple meanings. It generally depends on the interlocutor, but also on the context. Note that the appearance of the smiley may vary depending on the device used, but also on the application on which you are connected.
