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whimmy, a.|ˈhwɪmɪ| Also 9 whimy. [f. whim n.1 + -y1.] Of the nature of a whim; full of whims; whimsical, capricious.
1785Strother's Jrnl. (1912) 66 A whimmy thought struck him that Aram was following him for the bone. 1827Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 314 The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy, or makes him so. 1880A. Sartoris Past Hours I. 162 She is very uncertain and whimmy, and has an immense amour propre about it. 1889M. E. Carter Mrs. Severn ii. iv, ‘Perhaps it is only a whim,’ said Anna. ‘She's not a whimy body’. |