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Giggle vs Simper - What's the difference?

giggle | simper |

As verbs the difference between giggle and simper

is that giggle is to laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way while simper is to smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.

As nouns the difference between giggle and simper

is that giggle is a high-pitched, silly laugh while simper is a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

giggle

English

Verb

(giggl)
  • To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way.
    • The jokes had them giggling like little girls all evening.

    Synonyms

    * (laugh in a silly way) titter * See also

    Derived terms

    * giggly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A high-pitched, silly laugh.
  • (informal) Amusement.
    • We put itching powder down his shirt for giggles .
    The women thought it would be quite a giggle to have a strippergram at the bride's hen party.

    Synonyms

    * titter * amusement, fun, a joke, a laugh or laughs

    simper

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.
  • * 1892 , , The American Claimant , ch. 21:
    • Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!
  • * 1915 , , The Voice In The Fog , ch. 24:
    • How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
  • (obsolete) To glimmer; to twinkle.
  • * Herbert
    • Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.
  • * 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2, "St. Edmundsbury":
    • 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!
  • * 1972 , , The Levanter (2009 edition), ISBN 9780755117635, p. 158:
    • He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper .

    See also

    * smirk * shit-eating grin

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