simples
simples interjection: indicating that something is easy to do or to understand. Also the plural of simple.
Interjection
- Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
- There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!2009 April 14, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet)
- So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet
Also used as
simples is also the plural of simple.
simples is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of simple.
Origin of simples
See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Phrases with simples
Questions about simples
- What does simples mean?
- Simples means indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
- What part of speech is simples?
- Simples is an interjection.
Words near simples in the dictionary
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