• Simpering

    Verb

    1. Present participle of simper

    Full definition of simpering

    Noun

    simpering

    (plural simperings)
    1. The act of one who simpers.
      • Samuel RichardsonWell, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him...
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