uwu
An internet emoticon and slang term representing a cute, tender, or overwhelmingly affectionate facial expression — the 'u' characters suggest closed, happy eyes and the 'w' is a cute animal-style mouth.
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An internet emoticon and slang term representing a cute, tender, or overwhelmingly affectionate facial expression — the 'u' characters suggest closed, happy eyes and the 'w' is a cute animal-style mouth. Associated with anime fandom, furry communities, and generally soft, saccharine internet culture. Deployed sincerely in those communities and ironically or mockingly outside them. Often used as an adjective or exclamation conveying maximum cuteness.
She replied to the fan art with just 'uwu' and the artist absolutely lost their mind.
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(internet slang) , often cloyingly cute.
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(Internet slang, humorous) A form of ironic childish text on the Internet intended to convey cuteness or innocence, produced by replacing certain letters, such as r and l with w, using childish terms, kawaii expressions and emoticons, such as uwu, owo or kaomoji.
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