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Simper

//ˈsɪmpə// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

    "Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, with that placid dilettante simper, the Heaven's—Watchtower of our Fathers, the fallen God's—Houses, the Golgotha of true Souls departed!"

  2. 2
    a silly self-conscious smile wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner. intransitive

    "How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!"

  2. 2
    smile affectedly or derisively wordnet
  3. 3
    To glimmer; to twinkle. obsolete

    "Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).

Etymology 2

Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).

Etymology 3

Variant of Semper.

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