simper — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم

   أمثلة

   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

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   But where daft Nell simpers at him and tries to muss his slicked hair and pull it forward over his broad, Christian brow, my little Dot is looking nowhere but at the ground, still praying, praying even while she stands, and Rick has actually to touch her forearm with his finger in order to alert her to his Godlike nearness.

2. To glimmer; to twinkle.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور

   أمثلة

   Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.

اسم

1. A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

   كلمات ذات صلة

   shit-eating grinsmirk

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   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.

اسم

1. a silly self-conscious smile

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   smilesmilinggringrinning

فعل

1. smile affectedly or derisively

   مرادفات

   smirk

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   smile