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👿 Angry Face With Horns emoji

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does👿 Angry Face With Horns emoji mean?

Not exactly intimidating, the Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿 is a devilish creature, usually purple, with menacing eyebrows and two horns. Despite its appearance, this emoji is not typically used to convey true malevolence or threat. This character can be a bit mischievous; it can even be used to suggest a pouting mood, signaling a bit of toddler mayhem ahead. (Actually, that is terrifying!)

The Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿 implies angry frustration or a reaction to an event, person, or news that is irritating, upsetting, or annoying.

Related words

dance with the devil, 👀 Eyes emoji, 💣 Bomb emoji, 🔥 Fire emoji, 🖤 Black Heart emoji, 😈 Smiling Face With Horns emoji

Where does 👿 Angry Face With Horns emoji come from?

The Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the original name “Imp” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

This emoji is part of the “monster” set of emoji, which includes a ghost, alien, skull, Japanese ogre, and goblin. Its counterpart is the Smiling Face With Horns emoji😈. Interestingly, Facebook’s Angry Face With Horns emoji is the only one that shows its teeth. Yikes!

Examples of 👿 Angry Face With Horns emoji

It’s go time 👿 #beatUC
Calil_3, August 30, 2018
who tf turned my swag off Face with symbols over mouthImpFisted hand  
@tw1nkfantasy, October 14, 2020
First official day of practice for @NSUDemonsMBBis in the books | #ALLINBasketballImpSign of the horns
@NSUDemons, October 14, 2020
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Who uses 👿 Angry Face With Horns emoji?

Used mostly to express extreme unhappiness or disappointment, the Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿gets the point across pretty quickly.

It’s used in posts about everything from sporting events to one’s love life and is also used to express friskiness and flirtation, scary moods, frustration, and a (friendly) sense of menace.

Sometimes, Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿 isused to set a dark mood. Halloween offers a lot of opportunity for the devilish emoji!

It’s also used to express a naughty mood. Or maybe just a purple one!

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Offset with hearts, this emoji easily loses what little sense of terror it tries to convey:

But, if used in the right context, the Angry Face With Horns emoji 👿 does manage to express a tiny bit of terror:

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