What is this emoji?

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The MS Windows emoji description for :pray: is ‘folded hands’. Ouch!

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I mean in no universe are those hands folded.

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@Revels
Agree on those, as high 5 is more clear when you see a palm :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed::raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:t4:

If both hands would have different colour sleeves, it wouldn’t look as someone “is praying” :thinking:

:pray: :pray:t4: :pray:t6: no matter what skin colour I choose, sleeves are same. So both hands must belong to a same person :relieved:

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It’s a high five.

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I used to believe :eggplant: and :peach: were vegetables/fruit, but I have recently discovered I am way off. No matter what you do, someone is bound to decide on an alternate use, it seems! :eyes:

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If it’s a high five, it’s between a right handed person and lefty, who are both wearing the same colour top!

Or maybe, one of them lost their thumb in an accident in a munitions factory.

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Wow that’s years old an all though :sweat_smile:

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Some of the suggestions when you keyword search for terms are interesting…

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:joy:

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Yes, those have different (additional) meaning in LGBT community :sweat_smile:, especially in corresponding photos :camera_flash:

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Looks like some wording (straight) is not as colourful/cheerful as it could be :speak_no_evil::speech_balloon:

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TBF I thought it was an urban myth. I can’t say I’ve used either, I tend to stick to two or three main emojis for pretty much all cases. Maybe I need to expand my vocabulary.

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According to Unicode themselves,

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f64f

Folded hands, and in this publication…

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But as we all know, Language evolves with how it is used, and I would say emoji is part of that. And if Frauded is a word then this can certainly mean High Five

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Monzo probably use :pray: to denote ‘frauded’.

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It is

frauded

  1. simple past tense and past participle of fraud
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Prentending to frauded?

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Those folk at :monzo: I have seen use it are definitely in the “thank you” category

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Well I looked at a dictionary :woman_shrugging:

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I’m genuinely interested which? I checked all reputable sources I could think of and none had it so I obviously missed one! All I could find links to were some rather dubious sites. Even Merriam Webster didn’t have it and we all know Americans love to butcher the English language every chance they get so I thought if it would be anywhere it would be there…

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Can you look in an online dictionary?

A physical one, yes

But online surely you look at? :thinking:

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I think you might be getting a little off topic so to throw it even further off, I have a German friend who does a smiley face that looks like this : ( which I thought was a frown but he is insistent it is a smile

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