deadpan vs hieroglyphic

deadpan

adj
  • Impassive. 

  • Deliberately impassive or expressionless. 

  • Having such a face or look. 

noun
  • A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. 

adv
  • In a deadpan manner. 

verb
  • To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner. 

hieroglyphic

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

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