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Actor Tommy Flanagan has the scars of a Glasgow smile from having been attacked outside a bar in Glasgow. [1]A Glasgow smile (also known as a Chelsea grin/smile, or a Glasgow, Smiley, Huyton, A buck 50, or Cheshire grin) is a wound caused by making a cut from the corners of a victim's mouth up to the ears, leaving a scar in the shape of a smile.
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry.
This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons. Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art. In recent times, graphical icons, both static and animated, have joined the traditional text-based emoticons; these are commonly known as ...
Both the concept and the etymology of the word, while being of uncertain origin, appear to stem from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. [4] The 10th-century Byzantine Greek encyclopedia Suda traces the word's earliest roots to the notion of grinning (Ancient Greek: σαίρω, romanized: sairō) in the face of danger, or curling one's lips back at evil.
The word derives from Old English smearcian, via Middle English smirken.It is from the same root as smile, from Proto-Germanic *smar-, but with a velar root extension -k-(with intensive or frequentative function) particular to English also found in talk (from the root of tell) and stalk (from the root of steal) etc.
Risus sardonicus or rictus grin is a highly characteristic, abnormal, sustained spasm of the facial muscles that appears to produce grinning. It may be caused by tetanus , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] strychnine poisoning , or Wilson's disease , and has been reported after execution by hanging .
Other examples of evil laughter in film include the alien in Predator, the stepmother in Cinderella, Majin Buu Dragon Ball Z, and the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. [4] In films, evil laughter often fills the soundtrack when the villain is off camera. In such cases, the laughter follows the hero or victim as they try to escape.
Count Dracula is an example of a villain in classic literature and film. Theme from Mysterioso Pizzicato, a cliché silent movie cue for villainy Play ⓘ. A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction.