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单词
whimsy
释义
whimsy
whim‧sy
/
ˈwɪmzi
/
noun
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
whimsy
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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