Associations to the word «Whimsy»
Noun
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Wiktionary
WHIMSY, noun. A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
WHIMSY, noun. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
WHIMSY, noun. (mining) A whim.
WHIMSY, verb. (transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
Dictionary definition
WHIMSY, noun. 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".
WHIMSY, noun. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.