Word Meanings - SIMPERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Simper, v.

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• SIMPERING
  from Simper, v.
• SIMPER
  affected, coy, prudish, OSw. semper one who affectedly refrains from 1. To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner. Behold yond simpering dame. Shak. With a made countenance about her mouth, between simpering and smiling. ir. P. Sidney.
• SIMPERER
  One who simpers. Sir W. Scott. A simperer that a court affords. T. Nevile.
• SIMPERINGLY
  In a simpering manner.