Definition/Meaning of fancy

• English - Noun: fancy ( plural fancies ) The imagination . Milton In the soul / Are many lesser faculties , that serve / Reason as chief . Among these fancy next / Her office holds . An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea . Shakespeare How now , my lord! why do you keep alone , / Of sorriest fancies your companions making? An opinion or notion formed without much…
• English - Adjective: fancy ( comparative fancier , superlative fanciest ) Decorative . This is a fancy shawl . Of a superior grade . This box contains bottles of the fancy grade of jelly . Executed with skill . He initiated the game winning play with a fancy , deked saucer pass to the winger . ( colloquial ) Unnecessarily complicated . I'm not keen on him and his fancy ideas . ( obsolete ) Extravagant; above real…
• English - Verb: fancy ( third-person singular simple present fancies , present participle fancying , simple past and past participle fancied ) ( formal ) To appreciate without jealousy or greed . I fancy your new car , but I like my old one just fine . ( UK ) would like I fancy a burger tonight for dinner Do you fancy going to town this weekend? ( UK , informal ) To be sexually attracted to . I fancy that girl…
• English - Alternative forms: fant’sy, phancie, phancy, phansie, phansy, phant’sy ( all obsolete )
• English - Etymology: From Middle English , a contraction of fantasy , from Old French fantasie , from Medieval Latin fantasia , from Late Latin phantasia ( “ an idea , notion , fancy , phantasm ” ), from Ancient Greek φαντάζω ( phantázō , “ to render visible ” )