| fancy (ˈfænsɪ) | |
| —adj , -cier, -ciest | |
| 1. | not plain; ornamented or decorative: a fancy cake; fancy clothes |
| 2. | requiring skill to perform; intricate: a fancy dance routine |
| 3. | arising in the imagination; capricious or illusory |
| 4. | (often used ironically) superior in quality or impressive: a fancy course in business administration |
| 5. | higher than expected: fancy prices |
| 6. | (of a domestic animal) bred for particular qualities |
| —n , -cier, -ciest, -cies | |
| 7. | a sudden capricious idea; whim |
| 8. | a sudden or irrational liking for a person or thing |
| 9. | See imagination the power to conceive and represent decorative and novel imagery, esp in poetry. Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination |
| 10. | an idea or thing produced by this |
| 11. | a mental image |
| 12. | taste or judgment, as in art of dress |
| 13. | music fantasy, Also called: fantasia a composition for solo lute, keyboard, etc, current during the 16th and 17th centuries |
| 14. | archaic the fancy those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting |
| —vb , -cier, -ciest, -cies, -cies, -cying, -cied | |
| 15. | to picture in the imagination |
| 16. | to suppose; imagine: I fancy it will rain |
| 17. | (often used with a negative) to like: I don't fancy your chances! |
| 18. | (reflexive) to have a high or ill-founded opinion of oneself: he fancied himself as a doctor |
| 19. | informal to have a wish for; desire: she fancied some chocolate |
| 20. | informal (Brit) to be physically attracted to (another person) |
| 21. | to breed (animals) for particular characteristics |
| —interj | |
| 22. | Also: fancy that! an exclamation of surprise or disbelief |
| [C15 fantsy, shortened from fantasie; see | |
| 'fancily | |
| —adv | |
| 'fanciness | |
| —n | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |