From <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> + -ly. <span class="searchmatch">fancily</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">fancily</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">fancily</span>) In a <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> manner...
skill (colloquial) Unnecessarily complicated <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> (not comparable) (nonstandard) In a <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> manner; <span class="searchmatch">fancily</span>. 1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London:...
tickle someone's <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> (third-person singular simple present tickles someone's <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>, present participle tickling someone's <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>, simple past and past...
See also: footloose and <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>-free footloose and <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>-free (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology...
From <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> + -ness. <span class="searchmatch">fanciness</span> (usually uncountable, plural fancinesses) The property of being <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>....
<span class="searchmatch">fancying</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> <span class="searchmatch">fancying</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">fancyings</span>) Something <span class="searchmatch">fancied</span> or imagined. 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener:...
<span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> that An exclamation of surprise. Synonyms: imagine that, follow that; see also Thesaurus:wow “<span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> that”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary...
English Wikipedia has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> rat Wikipedia See <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> (“a sport or hobby”). <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> rat (plural <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> rats) A domesticated brown rat (Rattus...
<span class="searchmatch">fancy</span>-man, fancyman <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> man (plural <span class="searchmatch">fancy</span> men) (UK, dated slang) Synonym of ponce (“a pimp hired by a prostitute”). [1811] (obsolete) A man who is fancied:...
<span class="searchmatch">fancyings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">fancying</span>...