"simper out" meaning in English

See simper out in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: simpers out [present, singular, third-person], simpering out [participle, present], simpered out [participle, past], simpered out [past]
Etymology: From simper. Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} simper out (third-person singular simple present simpers out, present participle simpering out, simple past and past participle simpered out)
  1. (transitive) To speak with a simper. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-simper_out-en-verb-0pe1CrqJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

Download JSON data for simper out meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From simper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simpers out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpering out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpered out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpered out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "simper out (third-person singular simple present simpers out, present participle simpering out, simple past and past participle simpered out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Jenkins, Punch, Volume 5, page 56",
          "text": "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!'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851, W.H.G. Kingston, The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Jacob Oller, “'It' Trailer Moments That Need a Closer Look”, in Hollywood Reporter",
          "text": "Bill Skarsgard finally gets to creak and simper out his first line as It: “Here, take it.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak with a simper."
      ],
      "id": "en-simper_out-en-verb-0pe1CrqJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "simper",
          "simper"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To speak with a simper."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "simper out"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From simper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simpers out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpering out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpered out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simpered out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "simper out (third-person singular simple present simpers out, present participle simpering out, simple past and past participle simpered out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1843, Jenkins, Punch, Volume 5, page 56",
          "text": "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!'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1851, W.H.G. Kingston, The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Jacob Oller, “'It' Trailer Moments That Need a Closer Look”, in Hollywood Reporter",
          "text": "Bill Skarsgard finally gets to creak and simper out his first line as It: “Here, take it.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak with a simper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "simper",
          "simper"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To speak with a simper."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "simper out"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.