simper

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmpə/ / /ˈsɪmpɚ/

Etymology: Variant of Semper.

Etymology: Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).

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 true Souls departed!”
“He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.”

Etymology: Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).

To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner.
“How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!”
“a whimpering, simpering child”
To glimmer; to twinkle.
“Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.”