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单词	whimsy
释义	whimsywhim‧sy /ˈwɪmzi/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINwhimsy Origin: 1600-1700 whim-wham; ➔ WHIM Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Karla Hour's designs combine style and whimsy. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A touch of whimsy, fantasy or fun. His smile broadened and his eyes twinkled with whimsy. It contained enough witty lines to keep the creeping whimsy, indicated in the title, at bay. None of the new stations conveyed the confident self-assurance or whimsy of their distinguished predecessors. The earlier and well-known technique of framing up a loose panel appears to have been sacrificed to the whimsy of fashion. Thus Wish veers dizzily from gleeful whimsy to cosmic angst; from unconfident extroversion to manic introspection. [uncountable] a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that is unusual, strange, and often amusing:  a sense of fancy and whimsy
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