Usage examples (6)

• If the case of Mrs Phoebe Carpenter was an exception - well, she was a clergyman's wife, and you don't expect double-dealing from a wide-eyed simperer who sings...
• If the case of Mrs Phoebe Carpenter was an exception — well, she was a clergyman's wife, and you don't expect double-dealing from a wide-eyed simperer who sings...
• As a toe dancer in an alleged court scene, on land, Annette was a mere simperer.
• And well the simperer might be vain --