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Lying Face Emoji 🤥

The lying face emoji shows a face with a long, Pinocchio-style nose and a sly, closed expression. It calls out dishonesty — used to jokingly accuse someone of lying, admit you're stretching the truth yourself, or flag a claim that clearly doesn't add up.

What 🤥 means

A yellow face with blank eyes and a raised eyebrow, characterized with a long nose poking out and a curved mouth. This emoji signifies dishonesty and deceit at a much comical level.

Inspired by Pinocchio, the 🤥 Lying Face emoji shows that something or someone is lying. It can be a casual way of calling out someone as a 'liar' in a conversation or even depicting your own disbelief in something.

How and when to use it

If someone's texting you about something they did, but you know for a fact that its a lie, then you can use this emoji.
You can also use this to react to unbelievable stuff (not the good kind).
If you were on the lying side of the fence, and you get caught, you can charge guilty by sending this emoji (ensure its a casual and fun thing and not something serious).
If you're telling someone about someone else who's not trustworthy, you can use this emoji to suggest that, and also to ease the already fussed-up conversation.

Other Names

🤥 Liar
🤥 Deceitful
🤥 Dishonest
🤥 Lying
🤥 Pinocchio
🤥 Long Nose

🤥 in real conversations

What does 🤥 mean in texting?

Caught lying — the Pinocchio nose gives it away. Dropped after someone makes an obviously false claim, or self-reported when admitting to a fib: 'told my boss I was sick 🤥.'

What does 🤥 mean from a girl?

Calling out a lie, usually playfully — 'you did NOT wake up looking like that 🤥' teases an exaggerated claim rather than accusing someone of something serious. Light suspicion more than a real accusation.

Is 🤥 always calling someone a liar?

Mostly, yes, though it's frequently self-directed too — people use it to flag their own white lie with a wink, like admitting to canceling plans with a fake excuse.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-neutral-skeptical
Codepoints: U+1F925
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :lying_face::liar: Discord
Keywords: face, liar, lie, lying, pinocchio

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.