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Verb: fancy fansee- Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- visualize, visualise [Brit], envision, project, see, figure, picture, image - Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
"She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweller's window" - go for, take to - (informal) find sexually attractive
"he definitely fancies her" Adjective: fancy (fancier,fanciest) fansee- Not plain; decorative or ornamented
"fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes" Noun: fancy fansee- Something many people believe that is false
- illusion, fantasy, phantasy [archaic] - A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
- A predisposition to like something
- fondness, partiality Interjection: fancy fansee Usage: Brit
- Used to express surprise
- crikey [Brit], cripes, cor [Brit], crumbs [Brit], gosh, golly, by George, by Jove, blimey [Brit], gorblimey [Brit], cor blimey [Brit], my, holy cow, holy mackerel, holy smoke, holy moley, holy moly, good grief, goodness, goodness me, Gordon Bennett, gracious, gracious me, fancy that, god, my word, oh, O, ah, oh boy, jeez, geez, strewth [Brit], struth [Brit], yikes, I'll be blowed [Brit], blow me [Brit], Holy-dooly [Austral], heck, blooming heck [Brit], jeepers, jeepers creepers, marry [archaic], well I never, heavens, good heavens, my goodness, Jesus, bejesus [N. Amer]
Derived forms: fanciest, fancying, fancies, fancier, fancied See also: adorned, aureate, baroque, battlemented, busy, castellated, castled, churrigueresco, churrigueresque, crackle, damascene, damask, decorated, dressy, elaborate, embattled, fancier, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, florid, fussy, lacelike, lacy, luxuriant, puff, puffed, rhetorical, rococo, vermicular, vermiculate, vermiculated Type of: conceive of, desire, envisage, ideate, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, liking, misconception, vision, want Antonym: plain Encyclopedia: Fancy Fancy, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |