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simples

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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.

interjection

UK, humorous, slang Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand. 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!

noun

plural plural of simple

verb

indicative, present, singular, third person third-person singular simple present indicative of simple

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@misc{simples_2026,
  title = {simples},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/simples},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}