fancy

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fancy
ˈfansi Listen
Meanings
adjective
  • elaborate in structure or decoration.
    E.g. the furniture was very fancy
  • (of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life.
    E.g. I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes
verb
  • feel a desire or liking for.
    E.g. do you fancy a drink?
  • regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner.
    E.g. I fancy him to win the tournament
  • imagine; think.
    E.g. he fancied he could smell the perfume of roses
noun
  • a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.
    E.g. this was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by
  • the faculty of imagination.
    E.g. he is prone to flights of fancy
  • a small iced cake.
    E.g. chocolate fancies
  • (in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form.

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