whimsy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: whimsy	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for whimsy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
whimsy n an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it" Synonym(s): notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" Synonym(s): flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whimsey \Whim"sey\, Whimsy \Whimsy\, n.; pl. {Whimseys}or {Whimsies}. [See {Whim}.] 1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. [bd]The whimsies of poets and painters.[b8] --Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. --Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. --Bancroft. 2. (Mining) A whim.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whimsy \Whim"sy\, n. A whimsey.