fancy
/ˈfæn.si/ verb B1- To appreciate without jealousy or greed. · I fancy your new car, but I like my old one just fine.
- To imagine, suppose. · [dated] I fancy you'll want something to drink after your long journey.· I fancy this is an error.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To breed (animals) as a hobby.
He/she/it fancies · Past fancied · Past participle fancied · -ing form fancying
Verb forms
- Base form
- fancy
- He/she/it
- fancies
- Past
- fancied
- Past participle
- fancied
- -ing form
- fancying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I am aware he is a furious royalist; but, in spite of that, and of his being king’s attorney, he is a man like ourselves, and I fancy not a bad sort of one.”
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
Diana says she never saw the beat of me for hitting on fancy names for places.
“She will soon get over these things.” So saying, Madame de Saint-Méran extended her dry bony hand to Villefort, who, while imprinting a son-in-law’s respectful salute on it, looked at Renée, as much as to say, “I must try and fancy ’tis your dear hand I kiss, as it should have been.”
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