fancying

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

fancying

  1. present participle and gerund of fancy

Noun[edit]

fancying (plural fancyings)

  1. Something fancied or imagined.
    • 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener:
      These sad fancyings – chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain – led on the other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby.

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