Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who simpers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who simpers.
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- noun One who
simpers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy
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Examples
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If the case of Mrs Phoebe Carpenter was an exception — well, she was a clergyman's wife, and you don't expect double-dealing from a wide-eyed simperer who sings come-to-Jesus in the choir.
Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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If the case of Mrs Phoebe Carpenter was an exception - well, she was a clergyman's wife, and you don't expect double-dealing from a wide-eyed simperer who sings come-to-Jesus in the choir.
Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985
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As a toe dancer in an alleged court scene, on land, Annette was a mere simperer.
The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905
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Adele, Mumford and Sons, cathedral-blighting folk simperer Laura Marling - had created a vortex of boredom, "a boretex, if you will".
The Guardian World News Stuart Jeffries 2011
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It was coined earlier this year by Popjustice.com's Peter Robinson in a Guardian article that suggested pop's Beige Wave - Adele, Mumford and Sons, cathedral-blighting folk simperer Laura Marling
The Guardian World News Stuart Jeffries 2011
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_ But to be in love with a waiting-woman! with an eater of fragments, a simperer at lower end of a table, with mighty golls, rough-grained, and red with starching, those discouragers and abaters of elevated love!
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 John Dryden 1665
john commented on the word simperer
Wow, WeirdNet wins with alliteration.
October 12, 2009
bilby commented on the word simperer
I love a lightly lilting alliteration.
October 12, 2009
reesetee commented on the word simperer
What weirdness will WeirdNet whip up next?
October 15, 2009
seanahan commented on the word simperer
I think that would make a good first line to a poem.
October 19, 2009