simmer

Meanings

Verb

• To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
• To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.
• To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated.
• To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation.
• To develop gradually, of an idea or plan.

Noun

• The state or process of simmering.
• Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.

Origin

• From alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen ("to simmer") , of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb.
• From sim + -er.