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单词 fancy
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fancyverb

uk/ˈfæn.si/us/ˈfæn.si/

fancy verb (LIKE)

B1 [ T ] UK to want to have or do something:

Do you fancy a drink this evening?
[ + -ing verb ] I didn't fancy swimming in that water.

B2 [ T ] UK informal to be sexually attracted to someone:

He could tell she fancied him.
fancy yourself UK disapproving

to think you are very attractive or important:

That Dave really fancies himself, doesn't he?

More examples

  • Do you fancy coming on a day trip to Bath next Saturday?
  • Do you fancy going out for a meal after work?
  • What shall we do foodwise - do you fancy going out to eat?
  • I thought he fancied me, but I'd completely misread the signals.
  • She knew he fancied her, but preferred to keep their relationship platonic.

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Wanting things

  • ache for sth
  • acquisitive
  • ambitious
  • angle
  • angle for sth
  • aspirant
  • burn
  • finger
  • hang the cost/expense idiom
  • hanker after/for sth
  • have your eye on sth idiom
  • hunger
  • hunger after/for sth
  • pine
  • set your sights on sth idiom
  • shook
  • sight
  • sth is calling you idiom
  • straw
  • tempt

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Showing arrogance and conceit

fancy verb (IMAGINE)

[ I or T ] UK to imagine or think that something is so:

He fancies himself as a bit of a singer.
[ + to infinitive ] Who do you fancy to win the Cup this year?
[ + (that) ] literary I fancied (that) I saw something moving in the corner.
old-fashioned This isn't the first time this has happened, I fancy.
fancy! C2 old-fashioned

an expression of surprise:

Fancy seeing you here!
"They have eight children." "Fancy that (= how surprising)!"

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Imagining and conceiving

  • a reach of the imagination idiom
  • assume
  • blue-sky
  • conceivable
  • conceive
  • conceptualize
  • dream
  • feel
  • fertile
  • foundation
  • grant
  • look on/upon sb/sth as sth
  • mind
  • picture
  • presumption
  • put
  • put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
  • reckon
  • riot
  • suspicion

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Expressions of surprise

Idiom(s)

fancy sb's chances

fancyadjective

uk/ˈfæn.si/us/ˈfæn.si/

fancy adjective (DECORATIVE)

decorative or complicated:

I wanted a simple black dress, nothing fancy.
The decorations were a little too fancy for my tastes.
fancy cakes

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Complexity

  • a paper chase idiom
  • advanced
  • all-singing
  • be more to sth than meets the eye idiom
  • bleeding-edge
  • compound
  • equation
  • finicky
  • high-tech
  • intractable
  • intricacy
  • intricate
  • plot
  • purple
  • serpentine
  • sophisticated
  • tangled
  • the plot thickens idiom
  • thereby
  • wheel

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fancy adjective (EXPENSIVE)

informal expensive:

We stayed in a fancy hotel near the Champs-Élysées.
a fancy restaurant

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Expensive & luxurious

  • costly
  • delicacy
  • deluxe
  • exclusive
  • executive
  • expensive
  • grand
  • grandly
  • lush
  • luxurious
  • no expense is spared idiom
  • opulent
  • plush
  • premium-rate
  • priceless
  • sumptuous
  • swish
  • tony
  • unaffordable
  • white elephant

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fancynoun

uk/ˈfæn.si/us/ˈfæn.si/

fancy noun (THING/PERSON YOU LIKE)

passing fancy

something that you like very much for a short period:

But for me, parachuting was no passing fancy.
take a fancy to sth/sb

to start liking something or someone very much:

Laura's taken a fancy to Japanese food.
take/tickle your fancy informal US strike your fancy

If something takes/tickles your fancy, you like it and want to have or do it:

I looked in a lot of clothes shops but nothing really tickled my fancy.
She has enough money to buy anything that strikes her fancy.

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Passionate or passing interests

  • craze
  • cult
  • drug
  • fad
  • faddism
  • kick
  • mania
  • mania
  • passion
  • religion
  • ruling
  • sb's ruling passion idiom

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Liking

fancy noun (IMAGINATION)

[ U ] literary the imagination

See

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Imagining and conceiving

  • a reach of the imagination idiom
  • assume
  • blue-sky
  • conceivable
  • conceive
  • conceptualize
  • dream
  • feel
  • fertile
  • foundation
  • grant
  • look on/upon sb/sth as sth
  • mind
  • picture
  • presumption
  • put
  • put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
  • reckon
  • riot
  • suspicion

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Ideas, concepts and theories
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