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English
Noun
whimsey (countable and uncountable, plural whimseys or whimsies)
- Alternative spelling of whimsy
1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelations of truth
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