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Fancy   /fˈænsi/   Listen
Fancy

verb
(past & past part. fancied, pres. part. fancying)
1.
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.  Synonyms: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize.  "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"
2.
Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for.  Synonyms: go for, take to.
adjective
1.
Not plain; decorative or ornamented.  "Fancy clothes"
noun
(pl. fancies)
1.
Something many people believe that is false.  Synonyms: fantasy, illusion, phantasy.
2.
A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination.
3.
A predisposition to like something.  Synonyms: fondness, partiality.



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"Fancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... fanning mill. The middlings thus purified were then reground, and the result was a much whiter and cleaner flour than it had been possible to obtain under the old process of low close grinding. This flour was called 'patent' or 'fancy,' and at once took a high position in the market. The first machine built by La Croix was immediately improved by George T. Smith, and has since then been the subject of numberless variations, changes, and improvements; and over the principles ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various
... "It will, I fancy, still bring me good fortune. I come of a superstitious race, and nothing would tempt me to part with it. This, as I said, is only the beginning. It appeared impossible to move the boulder from your wagon trail, and I did it. The neighbors declared nobody could drain Bransome's prairie, ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... was jovially minded to do his best. The young fellow had taken a strong hold upon his liking. Moreover, the judge was a confirmed romantic, though he would have resented being thus catalogued. He chose to consider his inner stirrings of sentimentalism in the present case as due to a fancy for minor diplomacies and delicate negotiations. One thing he was sure of: that he was enjoying himself unusually, and that the Tyro was like to get very ...
— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... to leave her alone when he saw in his fancy the clean, simple, mindless, honest life that her fanciful girlhood would settle down into as time should go on. But when in the figure of the woodman there was painted visibly on the dusky sky that end for her which he had foreseen, ...
— Bebee • Ouida
... give to their mothers the honor of whatever of greatness or worth they had attained. But somehow we shrink from saying that Jesus was influenced by his mother as other good men have been; that he got from her much of the beauty and the power of his life. We are apt to fancy that his mother was not to him what mothers ordinarily are to their children; that he did not need mothering as other children do; that by reason of the Deity indwelling, his character unfolded from within, without the aid of home teaching and training, and the ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller


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