Concept cluster: Actions > Expressing happiness
adj
High or shrill.
v
(transitive) To groan about; bewail; groan at.
v
(transitive) To smile at; give or show a smile to.
adv
In a booming manner; loudly.
adj
Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.
n
A smile in response to another person's smile.
v
(intransitive) To create a dimple in one's face by smiling.
adv
In an earsplitting way; very loudly.
n
(idiomatic) A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.
v
(East Anglia) To grin or smile.
v
Obsolete spelling of grin [(intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.]
v
(intransitive) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
n
A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
v
(simile) To smile broadly, especially in a self-satisfied way.
adj
Having or resembling a grin.
v
(intransitive) To suffer griping pains.
v
(intransitive) To exchange grins or snarls.
v
(transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
n
(US, informal) A large beaming smile.
adj
(idiomatic) Possessing or characterized by robust lungs and a strong voice suitable for loud, sustained public speaking, shouting, wailing, singing, etc.
adj
(of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
adj
Somewhat loud
adj
Obsolete form of loud. [(of a sound) Of great intensity.]
v
(dated, usually with "at") To make faces (at someone), to fun (of someone), to laugh (at someone).
v
(intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
v
(intransitive, dated) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
v
(intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
n
The act by which one nods.
n
(informal) A permanent smile.
adv
In a plangent manner: with a loud reverberating sound, or plaintively.
v
(transitive) To say while pouting.
v
(idiomatic) To make an abnormal facial expression, either intentionally or because of an emotion.
adv
With lively success.
v
(idiomatic, chiefly imperative) To smile for a photograph by saying the word "cheese" (the vowel of which, when pronounced as is usual in English, forces a somewhat smile-shaped mouth).
n
Something exceptionally good.
n
A low voice close to a whisper.
n
(idiomatic, vulgar) A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.
n
(vulgar) Synonym of shit-eating grin
adv
In a shouty manner.
adv
In a shrill manner.
v
(transitive) To speak with a simper.
n
The act of one who simpers.
n
A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
v
(informal, derogatory) To behave in an insincerely cheerful way toward somebody, often by way of flattery or flirtation.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
n
(idiomatic) A large smile.
v
To smile while smirking
n
A quantity revealed by a smile.
n
(obsolete) A little smile.
n
A simplified drawing of a smiling face, using two dots for the eyes and an arc for the mouth.
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of smiley [A simplified representation of a smiling face.]
adj
(rare, dialect) Smiling; inclined to smile.
adj
Alternative form of smiley [Cheerful and happy; smiling.]
n
A forced or affected smile.
v
(slang) To smile with one's eyes.
adj
(of a voice) Loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds.
n
(rare) A half smile.
v
(colloquial) To become or make somebody else happy after being sad.
n
A slight trembling of the nerves.
adv
Under one's breath; inaudibly or in a barely audible manner.
adj
(rare) Silent, hushed.
v
(intransitive) To flinch as if in pain or distress.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To sneer (at).
adj
That yawns or yawn.

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