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Simper vs Lour - What's the difference?

simper | lour |

In lang=en terms the difference between simper and lour

is that simper is to smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner while lour is to frown; to look sullen.

As verbs the difference between simper and lour

is that simper is to smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner while lour is to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

As a noun simper

is a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

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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    lour

    English

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • * 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
    • And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
    • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
    • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
  • * {{quote-web, date=2007-03-29 , quotee=Judith , title=Gordon Brown Meets the Ten Year Olds , site=Dale's Diary
    • citation , passage= … the appalling burden of public service inflation-proof pensions that will lour over our children and grandchildren.}}
  • To frown; to look sullen.
  • * (rfdate) John Dryden:
    • But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.

    Related terms

    * glower * loweringly