Whimsy

Alternative forms

• whimsey

Full definition of whimsy

Noun

1. A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. — Swift.Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
• 2012, May 27, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992), It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver.
2. An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
3. (mining) A whim.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
• J. FletcherTo have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.