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To simper is to smile in a silly, thin, slightly way — the smile that is trying to look sweet or shy, but feels put on. Writers use it when they do not like the smile: a person fishing for a present, a character being coy on purpose. It is if you say it about someone standing in front of you. You will meet the word more in books than in everyday talk. There is a noun too: a simper is that smile itself. It is not a warm grin, and it is not a laugh. Stress the first beat: SIM-per.
裝可愛地傻笑、假惺惺地笑（帶嫌棄；不是真心的笑）
組成Uncertain. This probably sits near Danish simper / semper (“coy”) and German zimper (“dainty, precious”), but that is a “probably,” not a locked story.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Simpername
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A surname.
simperverb/ˈsɪmpə/
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To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner.
- How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
- a whimpering, simpering child
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obsoleteTo glimmer; to twinkle.
- Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.
simpernoun/ˈsɪmpə/
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A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.
- 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!
- He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。