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Word: Fancy
Speech Type: Verb
ˈfansi
feel a desire or liking for
Short Definition:feel desire or liking for
Examples:- do you fancy a drink?
regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner
Short Definition:regard as likely winner
Examples:- I fancy him to win the tournament
imagine; think
Short Definition:imagine
Examples:- he fancied he could smell the perfume of roses
- he fancied himself as an amateur psychologist
Word: Fancy
Speech Type: Noun
ˈfansi
a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction
Short Definition:superficial or transient liking
Examples:- this was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by
the faculty of imagination
Short Definition:faculty of imagination
Examples:- he is prone to flights of fancy
a small iced cake
Short Definition:small iced cake
Examples:- chocolate fancies
(in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form.
Short Definition:musical composition
Word: Fancy
Speech Type: Adjective
late Middle English: contraction of fantasy
ˈfansi
elaborate in structure or decoration
Short Definition:elaborate in structure or decoration
Examples:- the furniture was very fancy
- a fancy computerized system
(of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life
Short Definition:created from imagination
Examples:- I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes
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