■ adjective completely genuine or honest.
Origin
C18: from (the real) Simon Pure , a character in Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who for part of the play is impersonated by another character.
■ adjective completely genuine or honest.
Origin
C18: from (the real) Simon Pure , a character in Centlivre's A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1717), who for part of the play is impersonated by another character.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004