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simpers

simpers is the plural of simper.

simpers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of simper.

Meaning of simper

Noun

simper (plural simpers)

  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...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

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Proper noun capitalized: Simpers

Simpers

  1. (plural) plural of Simper

Phrases with simpers

Questions about simpers

What is simpers the plural of?
Simpers is the plural of simper.
What part of speech is simpers?
Simpers is a proper noun.

Words near simpers in the dictionary

  1. simperers
  2. simpering
  3. simpering out
  4. simperingly
  5. simperings
  6. simpers
  7. simpers out
  8. simpery
  9. simphonies
  10. simphony
  11. simpier

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