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verb-intransitive. To smile in a silly, self-conscious, often coy manner.

v. To utter or express with a silly, self-conscious, often coy smile: simpered a lame excuse.

n. A silly, self-conscious, often coy smile.

v. To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.

n. A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

verb-intransitive. To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.

verb-intransitive. To glimmer; to twinkle.

n. A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

An obsolete or dialectal variant of simmer.

To smile in an affected, silly manner; smirk.

To twinkle; glimmer.

Synonyms Simper and Smirk both express smiling; the primary idea of the first is silliness or simplicity; that of the second is affectation or conceit. The simplicity in simpering may be affected; the affectation in smirking may be of softness or of kindness.

n. An affected, conscious smile; a smirk.

n. a silly self-conscious smile

v. smile affectedly or derisively

"In the morning, before I got up, Strap came into my chamber, and, finding me awake, hemmed several times, scratched his head, cast his eyes upon the ground, and, with a very foolish kind of simper upon his face gave me to understand he had something to communicate."

simpered    simpering    simpers   

grinning    smile    smiling    grin   

smirk   

glimmer    twinkle    smirk    smile   

Shrimper    shrimper    whimper   

smirk    snicker    monolayer    reboso    expresser    plaintiveness    complacence    tremulousness