Simper

Elbow, who had appeared wonderfully grave and attentive for some time, gave him a Touch upon the left Shoulder, and stared him in the Face with so bewitching a Grin, that the Whistler relaxed his Fibres into a kind of Simper, and at length burst out into an open Laugh.

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Now you might think ‘not surprising with some obscure guy’, but in his day, Simper was the equivalent of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Archive 2009-03-01 Brian Clegg 2009

This has resulted in Simper sightings all over the world.

Archive 2009-03-01 Brian Clegg 2009

But nearly everybody in ballet school "wants" it and has the same dream, that's why they're there, and nearly every dancer we see in the background or the sides appears more worthily talented than Little Miss Simper-puss.

All the World's a Stage, and I Wish Some People Would Get Off of It: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

However, we were going to perform a Simper piece and I wanted some programme notes, so looked him up on the web, only to find there was practically nothing about him there.

Archive 2009-03-01 Brian Clegg 2009

But I suppose she will Simper her way all thru to 2008, Following her leader who Put her in that Position of Speaker Of the House ...

Rep Pete Stark on Youtube, Speaking Truth to Power, Really Pissing off Right Wingers 2007

He also prohibited any person whatever, except Simper and his own servants, from coming into the great cabin without first sending in to obtain leave.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

Show me fifty thousand dollars and you can have my daughter -- otherwise she marries young Simper.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Simper James! simper James, leave your fair Killie dames,

The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad 1909

Semark, St. Mark, Semple, St. Paul, Simper, St. Pierre, Sidney, probably for St. Denis, with which we may compare the educated pronunciation of St. John.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909