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whimsy

/ˈwɪmzi

(also whimsey)

noun (plural whimsies or whimseys)

1 [mass noun] Playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour: the film is an awkward blend of whimsy and moralizing...

Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension.
Come celebrate with the young artists in attendance as they inject fresh colour, life, scent, spirit, humour and unselfconscious whimsy into our art scene.
In my opinion the eyes are almost the most important part of the toy, giving it so much personality - humour, whimsy, cuteness, scariness and so on.

1.1 [count noun] A thing that is fanciful or odd: the stone carvings and whimsies...

A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting.
Place to buy meaningless whimsy if you have nothing else to do with your dough: Small Crafts Advisory, 9803 Third Ave., Stone Harbor.

2A whim: a clean slate on which to enter information in the form that suits your whimsy...

At the whimsy of the jail administration, months of hard work sealing the cracks with toothpaste were rendered redundant.
I noticed that Paul Johnson has dropped the whimsy and got stuck in to some serious vitriol throwing.
Nothing can be called a sport that depends on the whimsy of ‘artistic impression’ and the opinions of nine judges.

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'caprice'): probably based on whim-wham.

The first sense of this was ‘a sudden fancy, a whim’. The word comes from whim-wham, first recorded in the 1520s and meaning ‘a decorative object, a trinket’, and ‘an odd notion or fancy’. Whim, which first meant ‘a pun or play on words’, also came from whim-wham in the 17th century.

单词	whimsy
释义	whimsy /ˈwɪmzi / (also whimsey) noun (plural whimsies or whimseys) 1 [mass noun] Playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour: the film is an awkward blend of whimsy and moralizing... Jarmusch directs with a deadpan tone throughout, always at a slow, sometimes funereal pace, his humour full of whimsy and subversion but prone to moments of idiosyncrasy that slip towards pretension. Come celebrate with the young artists in attendance as they inject fresh colour, life, scent, spirit, humour and unselfconscious whimsy into our art scene. In my opinion the eyes are almost the most important part of the toy, giving it so much personality - humour, whimsy, cuteness, scariness and so on. 1.1 [count noun] A thing that is fanciful or odd: the stone carvings and whimsies... A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting. Place to buy meaningless whimsy if you have nothing else to do with your dough: Small Crafts Advisory, 9803 Third Ave., Stone Harbor. 2A whim: a clean slate on which to enter information in the form that suits your whimsy... At the whimsy of the jail administration, months of hard work sealing the cracks with toothpaste were rendered redundant. I noticed that Paul Johnson has dropped the whimsy and got stuck in to some serious vitriol throwing. Nothing can be called a sport that depends on the whimsy of ‘artistic impression’ and the opinions of nine judges. Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'caprice'): probably based on whim-wham. The first sense of this was ‘a sudden fancy, a whim’. The word comes from whim-wham, first recorded in the 1520s and meaning ‘a decorative object, a trinket’, and ‘an odd notion or fancy’. Whim, which first meant ‘a pun or play on words’, also came from whim-wham in the 17th century. Rhymes flimsy
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