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🐌 Snail
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🐌 Emoji meaning
At a snail's pace, lethargic, sluggish, running behind, grossed out.
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🐌 Meaning
Being as slow as a snail, moving at a snail's pace, sending letters by snail mail. Represents slowness and also vulnerability because of the fragile snail shell. Causes revulsion in many people.
Examples
- Hurry up already! 🐌
- Why are you so slow? 🐌
- Everything's moving at a snail's pace. 🐌
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Snail vs turtle; both slow-moving shelled creatures, shell shapes may cause confusion.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Snail” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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Keywords added
+ animal + escargot + garden + nature + slug
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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Keywords added
+ snail
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- snail
