WHIMSEY, noun s as z. [from whim.] A whim; a freak; a capricious notion; as the whimseys of poets. Mens follies, whimsies, and inconstancy.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
WHIMSEY, noun s as z. [from whim.] A whim; a freak; a capricious notion; as the whimseys of poets. Mens follies, whimsies, and inconstancy.
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