simperingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]simperingly (comparative more simperingly, superlative most simperingly)
- In a simpering way.
- 1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […][1], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC:
- In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]