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simples

The English word “simples” has 1 meaning listed here.

interjection

  1. Indicating that something is easy to do or to understand.

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.

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