whim
pronunciation
How to pronounce whim in British English:
UK [wɪm]
How to pronounce whim in American English:
US [wɪm]
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- Noun:
- a sudden desire
- an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
Word Origin
- whim (n.)
- 1640s, "play on words, pun," shortened from whimwham "fanciful object" (q.v.). Meaning "caprice, fancy, sudden turn or inclination of the mind" first recorded 1690s, probably a shortened form of whimsy.
Example
- 1. Yet unlike much other plastic surgery it is no vanity-inspired whim .
- 2. But now , you have no right to expect them to bow to every whim and fancy just because selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality , thinking and request .
- 3. You may or may not have heard before how brin and page dispensed with personal assistants and calendars , preferring to bounce through their large ly unstructured days as the whim took them , or how they disbanded an entire layer of managers to set their engineers free of almost all controls .
- 4. However some modern designers are whim the aquarium tank into the interior furniture .
- 5. Emotionally , it 's hard to accept that the whim of a nonentity can change history .