simper

To smile in a silly, self-conscious, often coy manner.

To utter or express with a silly, self-conscious, often coy smile.

A silly, self-conscious, often coy smile.

An obsolete or dialectal variant of simmer.

An affected, conscious smile; a smirk.

To smile in an affected, silly manner; smirk.

To twinkle; glimmer.

Synonyms Simper and Smirk both express smiling; the primary idea of the first is silliness or simplicity; that of the second is affectation or conceit. The simplicity in simpering may be affected; the affectation in smirking may be of softness or of kindness.

A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk.

To smile in a silly, affected, or conceited manner.