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simper out en · VERB

Etymology

From simper.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To speak with a simper.
   • I hate your honey-mouthed, easy-going skippers, who simper out, 'Please, my good men, have the goodness to brace round the foreyard when the ship's taken aback.' No, no—give me a man who knows how to command men. 1851, W.H.G. Kingston, The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea:
   • https://books.google.com/books?id=YkwPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=%2522simper+out%2522&source=bl&ots=IaEkMnau54&sig=ACfU3U2kp-na-8kTF4azNZf_LXqu0_IRwQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkxfTau_roAhWTZs0KHbATA9kQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=%2522simper%2520out%2522&f=false Every time he twirls about, we simper out, 'C'est beau!' 1843, Jenkins, Punch, Volume 5, page 56:
   • Bill Skarsgard finally gets to creak and simper out his first line as It: “Here, take it.” 2017, Jacob Oller, “'It' Trailer Moments That Need a Closer Look”, in Hollywood Reporter:

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