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English
Etymology
See simple. As an interjection, “Simples!”, a humorous alteration of “Simple!”, was popularised as the broken-English catchphrase of a meerkat character in an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com.
Pronunciation
Interjection
simples
- (UK, slang, humorous) Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.
2009 April 14, jamie powell, “Re: Satellite dish acquires wrong 'bird'”, in uk.tech.digital-tv (Usenet):There is no potential for takeover of the state of Pakistan by a rag-tag bunch of trumped-up nobodies with battered guns, and therefore no threat to the west. simples!
- 2010 March 25, Mike Jones, "Re: And Jeremiah The Prophet Said:", in alt.talk.creationism and other newsgroups, Usenet:
- So you claim. So, put whatcha got on the table, or STFU. ¶ Simples.
2010 August 10, AC, “Re: HD coverage of the Nascar Race and Indy car races makes the F1 coverage look like Crap”, in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet):Look, the vast majority of F1 viewers don't have HD TV. There for the numbers don't add up. When they do, you will have your HD TV. Simples.
2013 August 4, Matthew Bell, “It's a very good 17 days to bury bad news”, in The Independent, London:Controversial plans to replace appointed peers with elected senators, longed for by the Lib Dems, were seemingly given a new berth among the leftovers of Sam Cam's veg box. Simples!
2019 February 26, Theresa May, “Leaving the European Union”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 173:Finally, the right hon. Gentleman talked about uncertainty: the uncertainty of not having the arrangements in place. If he wants to end uncertainty and if he wants to deal with the issues he raised in his response to my statement, then he should vote for a deal—simples.
2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:So, here's a bit of advice that I am sure she will not take: simply redeploy the lot of them, merge Network Rail with the train operators, call it British Railways, give it a set budget, and then let Andrew Haines and his colleagues get on with it. Simples.
Noun
simples
- plural of simple
Verb
simples
- third-person singular simple present indicative of simple
Asturian
Adjective
simples
- plural of simple
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
simples
- plural of simple
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
simples
- plural of simple
Noun
simples m
- plural of simple
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
simples
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative neuter singular of simpel
Mirandese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Adjective
simples m or f (plural simples)
- simple
Derived terms
References
“simples” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese simplez, from Latin simplex.
Pronunciation
Adjective
simples (invariable)
- simple
- (of a person) ignorant, uneducated
- Synonyms: xucro, ignorante, apedeuta
Derived terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
simples m pl or f pl
- plural of simple
Noun
simples m pl or f pl
- plural of simple