See whimsy on Wiktionary
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],
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{
"ref": "2016 January 29, Krister Johnson, “One Million Saved”, in Childrens Hospital, season 7, episode 2:",
"text": "\"Dori, you have to solve this puzzle!\" / \"Sure, right away doctor. Quality construction … clean edges. Oh, a whimsy!\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle."
],
"links": [
[
"jigsaw puzzle",
"jigsaw puzzle"
],
[
"on a whim",
"on a whim"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"en:Glassblowing"
],
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"The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty."
],
"links": [
[
"glassblowing",
"glassblowing"
],
[
"punty",
"punty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"usually"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"glassblowing",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪmzi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɪmzi/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmzi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "whimsey"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "hrumvane",
"sense": "idea",
"word": "хрумване"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "luim"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kuur"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bevlieging"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idea",
"word": "oikku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fantaisie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Laune"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Grille"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Schrulle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Marotte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Klamauk"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capriccio"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "stravaganza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "widzimisię"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kaprys"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "urojenie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "idea",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capricho"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "idea",
"word": "kapris"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "svoenravnost",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "своенравност"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kapriz",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "каприз"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "character",
"word": "oikuttelija"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Launigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Spleenigkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "launiger Charakter"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "character",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "impulsivo"
}
],
"word": "whimsy"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -y",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɪmzi",
"Rhymes:English/ɪmzi/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations"
],
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{
"args": {
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"2": "whim",
"3": "-y",
"alt1": "whims"
},
"expansion": "whims + -y",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Probably from whims + -y. Related to whim-wham, whim.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whimsies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "whimsying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "whimsied",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "whimsied",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comoedy. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Leonard Lichfield […], published 1640, →OCLC, Act II, scene [ii], page 16:",
"text": "A wantonneſſe in wealth, methinks I agree not with, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jewells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains whimſied with his wealth: […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze."
],
"links": [
[
"fill",
"fill#Verb"
],
[
"whimsies",
"whimsy#Noun"
],
[
"whim",
"whim"
],
[
"make",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"fantastic",
"fantastic"
],
[
"craze",
"craze#Verb"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪmzi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈʍɪmzi/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whimsy.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmzi"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "whimsey"
}
],
"word": "whimsy"
}
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