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Meaning of నవ్వు in English

  • A snare; a gin.
  • To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.
  • To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.
  • To express by grinning.
  • The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.
  • To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
  • Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
  • To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
  • To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out.
  • An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
  • One who laughs.
  • A variety of the domestic pigeon.
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
  • To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk.
  • A stroke of the tongue in licking.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue; as, to put on colors with a lick of the brush. Also, a small quantity of any substance so applied.
  • A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs.
  • To strike with repeated blows for punishment; to flog; to whip or conquer, as in a pugilistic encounter.
  • A slap; a quick stroke.
  • Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
  • Tempting the appetite; dainty.
  • Lecherous; lustful.
  • of Lick
  • A lapping with the tongue.
  • A flogging or castigation.
  • To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.
  • A forced or affected smile; a simper.
  • Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

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