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Webster 1913 Edition
Simpering
Sim′per-ing
,Webster 1828 Edition
Simpering
SIM'PERING
,ppr.
SIM'PERING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
simpering
simpering
English
Verb
simpering
- present participle of simper
Noun
simpering (plural simperings)
- The act of one who simpers.
- Samuel Richardson
- Well, 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 […]
- Samuel Richardson