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Whimsy  n.  A whimsey.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Whimsy" Quotes from Famous Books



... cup up to the brim, and insisted that he should drink what he called "clean caup out." "This love," he said, "is but a bairnly matter for a brisk young fellow like yourself, Master Jenkin. And if ye must needs have a whimsy, though I think it would be safer to venture on a staid womanly body, why, here be as bonny lasses in London as this Peg-a-Ramsay. You need not sigh sae deeply, for it is very true—there is as good fish in the sea as ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... Luther denied the infallibility of the Pope. He transposes all moral values, finds virtue often weakness and vice often strength, girds at all the cloud-spinning philosophers, and is one of the most brilliant and suggestive of modern writers, full of epigram and whimsy, and wielding the clumsy German tongue with rare grace and dexterity. But, as might be expected of the son of a parson, he pursues his reaction against conventional cant beyond the bounds of legitimate paradox, replacing the narrow by the narrower. Nietzsche ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill



Words linked to "Whimsy" :   arbitrariness, whimsicality, notion, thought, irresponsibility, capriciousness, whimsey



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