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whim

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whim  (hwm, wm)
n.
1. A sudden or capricious idea; a fancy.
2. Arbitrary thought or impulse: governed by whim.
3. A vertical horse-powered drum used as a hoist in a mine.

[Short for whim-wham, fanciful object.]

whim
Noun
a sudden, passing, and often fanciful idea [origin unknown]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.whim - a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"
desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
2.whim - an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"
idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"

whim
noun impulse, sudden notion, caprice, fancy, sport, urge, notion, humour, freak, craze, fad (informal) quirk, conceit, vagary, whimsy, passing thought, crotchet
Translations

whim [wɪm] ncapricho
whim [wɪm] ncaprice m
whim [wɪm] nLaune f
whim [wɪm] ncapriccio

whim
n whim [wim]
a sudden desire or change of mind I am tired of that child's whims. gier نَزْوَه прищявка vrtoch indfald; påfund die Grille παραξενιά, καπρίτσιο capricho tuju, kapriis خيال päähänpisto caprice גְחָמָה सनक hir, nušica szeszély tingkah duttlungur capriccio 気まぐれ įnoris kaprīze; untums kerenah; gerak hati gril lune, nykke, påfunn kaprys capricho capri­ciu каприз vrtoch kaprica hir infall, nyck ความคิดเพ้อฝัน; ความคิดเเปลกประหลาด; ความต้องการแปลก ๆ kapris, geçici istek 一閃念,怪念頭 примха; забаганка خیال جو اچانک آ جاءے ý chợt nảy ra


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I feel myself at the mercy of the first whim in the Vanstone direction which may come into her head -- I, the architect of her fortunes.
Her orders were indeed so liberal, that, had it been a child of her own, she could not have exceeded them; but, lest the virtuous reader may condemn her for showing too great regard to a base-born infant, to which all charity is condemned by law as irreligious, we think proper to observe that she concluded the whole with saying, "Since it was her brother's whim to adopt the little brat, she supposed little master must be treated with great tenderness.
"It was not altogether a whim," she said, her eyes falling from his, "and yet - now I am here - it does not seem easy to say what was in my mind.
 
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