Tilde

[Sarah]

The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, inSpanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, thesound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of theinitial, or consonantal, y.

[Sarah]

Sometimes used when IMing or on forums to denote trailing off or accentuating the final syllable of a word.
Note the use of extra letters preceding the tilde to complete the effect.

[Sarah]

The character ~ is colloquially used in written form in some areas of the UK to denote [sleazy], [sordid], or otherwise base behaviour.
~ can also cover flirtatious behaviour with the opposite sex: you are never ~ with the same sex.
An ability to ~ is generally viewed as being a positive personality trait, unless it is used on a friend's mother, grandmother, or domestic animal. Being ~ to a friend's sister is usually acceptable.
The vast majority of the world's virgins, comic book fanatics, computer scientists, and train spotters wish they had some ~.

[Sarah]

A very positive general exclamation. Derived from the tilde (~) character on a computer keyboard. In Internet culture, the appearance of tildes have come to connote strong reactions of happiness or approval. It stems from young computer users in highly excited states having a tendency to miss the exclamation point (!) key while typing, resulting in tildes becoming mixed with exclamation points in their writings.

[Sarah]

A curved line, used over N in Spanish for the palatal nasal (the middle sound of canyon and onion), or nasal vowels in Portuguese (like in the city name São Paolo). 2) The character ~ (Shift-GraveAccent on a typical PC keyboard), used to similate smoke emanating from an [ASCII] cigarette: <//////*~~~~~

[Couch Potatoe]

An accent (~) placed over Spanish n when pronounced ny (as in señor) or Portuguese a or o when nasalized (as in São Paulo), or over a vowel in phonetic transcription, indicating nasalization.