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by _4gzn 2024 days ago
And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink. This symbol, whose absence was till now sorely felt, particularly in lyric poetry, should soon become as indispensable as the colon, dash, exclamation mark, etc."

Given the words of the poem, the similarity of the emoji to a female sexual organ is not accidental IMHO.

[0] https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:PL_Tadeusz_Boy-%C5%BBe...