Smile vs Giggle - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between smile and giggle is that smile is 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 while giggle is a high-pitched, silly laugh. As verbs the difference between smile and giggle is that smile is to have (a smile) on one's face while giggle is to laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
smile English
Noun
( en noun)
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.
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile? ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
* archaic smile
* besmile
* Chelsea smile
* Glasgow smile
* smileless
* smilet
* smiley
* vertical smile
Verb
( smil)
(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
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* , chapter=7
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
To express by smiling.
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
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To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
* Byron
- When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled .
To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
- The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
* Alexander Pope
- The desert smiled , / And paradise was opened in the wild.
To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
- The gods smiled on his labours.
Derived terms
* smiler
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giggle English
Verb
( giggl)
To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
- The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.
Synonyms
* (laugh in a silly way) titter
* See also
Derived terms
* giggly
Noun
( en noun)
A high-pitched, silly laugh.
(informal) Amusement.
- We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles .
- The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.
Synonyms
* titter
* amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs
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