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"word": "blood-red fancy"
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"word": "border fancy"
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"word": "catch someone's fancy"
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"word": "fancy-free"
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"word": "fancy mouse"
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"word": "fancy rat"
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"word": "flight of fancy"
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"word": "strike someone's fancy"
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"word": "take a fancy to"
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"word": "tickle someone's fancy"
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰeh₂- (shine)"
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"5": "an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English fansy, fantsy, a contraction of fantasy, fantasye, fantasie, from Old French fantasie, from Medieval Latin fantasia, from Late Latin phantasia (“an idea, notion, fancy, phantasm”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fantasia, fantasy, phantasia, and phantasy.",
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{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 100-103:",
"text": "[…] But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 94:",
"text": "In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove; / In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1861 December, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “A New Counterblast”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 700:",
"text": "Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 232:",
"text": "[I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 221:",
"text": "For a time she could not soothe nor convince him that it was fancy.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"The imagination."
],
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"links": [
[
"imagination",
"imagination"
]
],
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"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fantazija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фантазия"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎobraženie",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "въображение"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "imago"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellungskraft"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Einbildungskraft"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fantasie"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "immaginazione"
},
{
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "voóbrazba",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "воо́бразба"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "фанта́зија"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xeyâl-bâfi",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "خیالبافی"
},
{
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"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Enbildunk"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "voobražénije",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "воображе́ние"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фанта́зия"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasía"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "magín"
},
{
"_dis1": "69 11 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "yaratıcılık"
}
]
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"ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 88:",
"text": "Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets’ fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people’s hopes.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An image or representation of anything formed in the mind."
],
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"image",
"image#Noun"
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[
"representation",
"representation"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "conception"
},
{
"word": "thought"
},
{
"word": "idea"
}
],
"translations": [
{
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"word": "fantazio"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellung"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Einbildung"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Idee"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xeyâl",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"word": "خیال"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фанта́зия"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 50 12 1 2 3 4 3 0 3 3 1 9 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mečtá",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мечта́"
}
]
},
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{
"ref": "1650, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d, 2nd edition, London, published 1653, Epistle Dedicatory, pp. 2-3:",
"text": "When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I have always had a Fancy, that Learning might be made a Play and Recreation to Children […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "I dare say I am merely a foolish woman with a young girl's fancies.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An opinion or notion formed without much reflection."
],
"id": "en-fancy-en-noun-BkMHYWwW",
"links": [
[
"opinion",
"opinion"
],
[
"notion",
"notion"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "impression"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 7 57 2 3 2 3 2 0 16 2 1 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellung"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 57 2 3 2 3 2 0 16 2 1 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Eindruck"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 7 57 2 3 2 3 2 0 16 2 1 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I had a fancy to learn to play the flute.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A whim."
],
"id": "en-fancy-en-noun-wnSQMqwH",
"links": [
[
"whim",
"whim"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "whim"
}
],
"translations": [
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"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prištjavka",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прищявка"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapriz",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "каприз"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A whim",
"word": "oikku"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A whim",
"word": "päähänpisto"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ghiribizzo"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kápric",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ка́приц"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "žélba",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "же́лба"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zachcianka"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "príxotʹ",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "при́хоть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kapríz",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́з"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 5 79 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pričúda",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "причу́да"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 0 12 1 1 3 4 6 4 0 21 3 2 3 0 2 1 4 2 2 5 7 1 1 4 3 2",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Love",
"orig": "en:Love",
"parents": [
"Emotions",
"Virtue",
"Mind",
"Ethics",
"Human",
"Philosophy",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 36:",
"text": "And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "He took a fancy to her.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Love or amorous attachment."
],
"id": "en-fancy-en-noun-RffO7Bex",
"links": [
[
"Love",
"love"
],
[
"amorous",
"amorous"
],
[
"attachment",
"attachment"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "predilection"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pristrastie",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пристрастие"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"word": "ihastus"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gefallen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zuneigung"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nóisean"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impuntatura"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 3 2 0 83 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbandata"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself / To fit your fancies to your father’s will;",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The object of inclination or liking."
],
"id": "en-fancy-en-noun-GbE532-I"
},
{
"categories": [],
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"categories": [
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{
"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 100-103:",
"text": "[…] But know that in the soul / Are many lesser faculties, that serve / Reason as chief; among these Fancy next / Her office holds […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 94:",
"text": "In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove; / In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1861 December, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “A New Counterblast”, in Atlantic Monthly, page 700:",
"text": "Rustic females who habitually chew even pitch or spruce-gum are rendered thereby so repulsive that the fancy refuses to pursue the horror farther and imagine it tobacco […]",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 232:",
"text": "[I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 221:",
"text": "For a time she could not soothe nor convince him that it was fancy.",
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"ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "How now, my lord! why do you keep alone, / Of sorriest fancies your companions making, / Using those thoughts which should indeed have died / With them they think on?",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 88:",
"text": "Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets’ fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people’s hopes.",
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"word": "thought"
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"word": "idea"
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"ref": "1650, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: Man Transform’d, 2nd edition, London, published 1653, Epistle Dedicatory, pp. 2-3:",
"text": "When you have well viewed the Scenes and Devillish shapes of this Practicall Metamorphosis, and scan’d them in your serious thoughts, you will wonder at their audacious phant’sies, who seeme to hold Specificall deformities, or that any part can seeme unhandsome in their Eyes, which hath appeared good and beautifull unto their Maker […]",
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"ref": "1693, [John Locke], “(please specify the section number)”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I have always had a Fancy, that Learning might be made a Play and Recreation to Children […]",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
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}
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"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 36:",
"text": "And they’ve taken a fancy to me, Aunt said. Kitto and the others. That means they like me.",
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"text": "He took a fancy to her.",
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"word": "predilection"
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"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself / To fit your fancies to your father’s will;",
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}
],
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"The object of inclination or liking."
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},
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"categories": [
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"text": "Trainspotting is the fancy of a special lot.",
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"text": "the cat fancy",
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}
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"group",
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"word": "hobby"
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],
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{
"text": "He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident.",
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},
{
"ref": "1830 September, Thomas De Quincey, “Review of Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. by J.H. Monk, D.D.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 28, number 171, p. 446, footnote:",
"text": "[…] at a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the Fancy, on a copy occurring, not one of the company but ourself knew what the mystical title-page meant.",
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}
],
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]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A diamond with a distinctive colour."
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[
"diamond",
"diamond"
]
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"text": "18th century, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving Land, cited in Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755,\nLondon-pride is a pretty fancy, and does well for borders."
}
],
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"That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value."
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"text": "a French fancy; a fondant fancy; cream fancies"
}
],
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"A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing."
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"cream",
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"icing",
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},
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{
"ref": "c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:",
"text": "[He] sung those tunes to the overscutch’d huswifes that he heard the carmen whistle, and sware they were his fancies or his good-nights.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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],
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],
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"obsolete"
]
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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"ref": "1970, Marta Weigle, Follow my fancy: the book of jacks and jack games, page 22:",
"text": "When you have mastered plainsies, the regular jack game, and have learned all the rules, you will be ready to use this part of the book. A fancy is a variation of plainsies which usually requires more skill than plainsies does.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Elizabeth Dana Jaffe, Sherry L. Field, Linda D. Labbo, Jacks, page 26:",
"text": "When you get good at jacks, try adding a fancy. A fancy is an extra round at the end of a game. It makes the game a little harder. Jack Be Nimble, Around the World, or Black Widow are some fancies.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies)."
],
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"jacks",
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"text": "the yellow fancy; the cream fancy; the blood-red fancy",
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}
],
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],
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],
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"word": "fancie"
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{
"word": "fansie"
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"word": "phancie"
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{
"word": "phancy"
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{
"word": "phansie"
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{
"word": "phansy"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "fantazija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фантазия"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎobraženie",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "въображение"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "imago"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellungskraft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Einbildungskraft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fantasie"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "immaginazione"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "voóbrazba",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "воо́бразба"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фанта́зија"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xeyâl-bâfi",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "خیالبافی"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Enbildunk"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "voobražénije",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "воображе́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фанта́зия"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasía"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "magín"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "The imagination; the image-making power of the mind",
"word": "yaratıcılık"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"word": "fantazio"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Einbildung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Idee"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xeyâl",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"word": "خیال"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fantázija",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "фанта́зия"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mečtá",
"sense": "An image formed in the mind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "мечта́"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prištjavka",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "прищявка"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapriz",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "каприз"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A whim",
"word": "oikku"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "A whim",
"word": "päähänpisto"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantasia"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ghiribizzo"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kápric",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ка́приц"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "žélba",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "же́лба"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "zachcianka"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "príxotʹ",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "при́хоть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kapríz",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капри́з"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pričúda",
"sense": "A whim",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "причу́да"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorstellung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Eindruck"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "An opinion formed without much reflection",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfall"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pristrastie",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пристрастие"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"word": "ihastus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gefallen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Zuneigung"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nóisean"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impuntatura"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Love or amorous attachment",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbandata"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Any sport or hobby pursued by a group",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Leidenschaft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Any sport or hobby pursued by a group",
"tags": [
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"text": "How can you fancie one that lookes so fierce, / Onely diſpoſed to martiall Stratagems? / UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms / UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.",
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"text": "Fancy meeting you here!",
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"text": "Fancy that! I saw Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy kissing in the garden.",
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"text": "You won't get the gig just because you fancy yourself a musician.",
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"text": "If our search has reached no farther than simile and metaphor, we rather fancy than know.",
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"ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 128:",
"text": "Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand. When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly. It made him shudder, and feel very cold.",
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"ref": "1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:",
"text": "He fancied he was welcome, because those around him were his kinsmen.",
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"ref": "1878, Henry James, An International Episode:",
"text": "“Fancy a French waiter at a club,” said his friend.\nThe young Englishman started a little, as if he could not fancy it.",
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"ref": "1895 May 7, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine: An Invention, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.",
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"ref": "1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict:",
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"text": "he whom I fancy, but can ne'er express",
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"ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1973, American Pigeon Journal, page 159:",
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"(transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predstavjam si",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "представям си"
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"word": "zich voorstellen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "sich vorstellen"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "piacere"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "desiderare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "immaginare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "volere"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "To imagine",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "predstavljatʹ",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "представлять"
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"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "smaoinich"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "saoil"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "tener ínfulas de"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "To imagine",
"word": "creerse"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ujavljáty",
"sense": "To imagine",
"tags": [
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"word": "уявля́ти"
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "ujavýty",
"sense": "To imagine",
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "haresvam",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
"word": "харесвам"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "običam",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
"word": "обичам"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
"word": "zich aangetrokken voelen tot iemand"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
"word": "auf stehen (jemanden)"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
"word": "sognare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
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"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
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"sense": "To be sexually attracted to",
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"note": "(mít chuť na+dative case) mít chuť",
"sense": "would like to"
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"sense": "would like to",
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "would like to",
"word": "хоті́ти"
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{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bažáty",
"sense": "would like to",
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