Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fantastic, or whimsical notion; a whim.
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Examples
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Some long-forgotten critic dubbed this kind of thing "whimsy-whamsy," and I can't put it any better than that.
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"The real reason," remarked Mrs. Baxter, who was making a garment -- she was under spiritual contract to make two a month -- "why the Dean hasn't risen higher is because he always has some whimsy-whamsy in his head."
Quisanté Anthony Hope 1898
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Unfortunately, there comes a time in "Finian's Rainbow" when the actors stop singing and start talking, at which point it becomes excruciatingly clear that the book, by Harburg and Fred Saidy, is a heavy-handed mishmash of Irish whimsy-whamsy and smug sanctimony ....
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