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whimsy-whamsy
[f. whimsy after next.]
= next, 2. Also attrib.
1807Southey Lett. from England III. lix. 109 An old Welsh baronet..chose some years ago to set up a heresy of his own... He himself called it Rational Whist; his friends, in a word of contemptuous fabrication, denominated it his whimsy-whamsy. 1871Caddell Never Forgotten ii, Maude always was obstinate when she had one of her religious whimsey whamseys in her head. 1900‘Anthony Hope’ Quisanté v, The real reason..why the Dean hasn't risen higher is because he always has some whimsy-whamsy in his head. 1931Time & Tide 26 Sept. 1118 Have we not whimsy-whamsy authors of our own without importing the too, too, quaint devices of foreign playwrights? 1945S. Lewis Cass Timberlane xl. 302 Sure, the jolly little playboy, and underneath his whimsy-whamsy, he's the coldest-hearted rich-man's lawyer. 1951McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 101/1 It is not a laughter or comedy to be compared with the whimsy-whamsy article of James Thurber. |