simper

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɪmpə/    美 /ˈsɪmpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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!
动词 v.
  1. To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner. intransitive
    — How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
  2. To glimmer; to twinkle. obsolete
    — Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.

词形变化

simpers present,singular,third-person simpering participle,present simpered participle,past simpered past simpers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
simperer simper out simpery

词源

词源 1
Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).
词源 2
Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).
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