The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. Whimseysor Whimsies. [See Whim.]
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A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. ``The whimsies of poets and painters.''
--Ray.Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy.
--Swift.Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth.
--Bancroft. (Mining) A whim.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of whimsey English)
Usage examples of "whimseys".
Desnoyers was accustomed to humor Robert’s tirades against his fellow citizens because the man had always humored his whimseys about the incessant rearrangement of his furniture.
These are the whimseys of the mass - the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence.
These are the whimseys of the mass – the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence.
In a short time after he appeared abroad, and confirmed the report by falling into the oddest whimseys that ever a sick brain conceived.