<entry id="2230730" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<ent_seq>2784300</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>媚び笑い</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>媚笑い</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>こびわらい</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="2663240">媚笑</xref>
<misc>&rare;</misc>
<gloss>charming, enticing smile</gloss>
<gloss>smile meant to catch a man's attention</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-04-27 10:33:04" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Rick Papo</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Found with furigana on Takemiya Yuyuko's "Golden Time 3", page 29.  Sentence:

あんのぉー、とか細い声で万里が口を開いた。ぺたりと頰に卑屈な媚笑い。

"媚笑" was annotated with "こびわら".</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-04-27 13:16:34" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>2k hits.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>日本国語大辞典</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-05-05 15:42:32" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I imagine this and the xref would have similar meanings.

I think that a "flattering smile" in English more often means "the smile makes the person look attractive", or "the look pretty/handsome when they smile", less than the intent behind the smile. (though the other use does exist)

I wasn't sure how I would gloss it any better though, until I found that 媚笑 was in here.

In addition to ngrams, 媚び笑い has 3x the books results of 媚笑い. (媚笑 has endless book results by comparison)</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>媚笑	2053	95.5%
媚び笑い	65	3.0%
媚笑い	31	1.4%</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;媚び笑い&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -12 +15,4 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;flattering smile&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="2663240"&gt;媚笑&lt;/xref&gt;
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;rare;&lt;/misc&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;charming, enticing smile&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;smile meant to catch a man's attention&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-05-05 23:12:57" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>