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单词 whimsome
释义

whimsome

English

Etymology

From whim + -some.

Adjective

whimsome (comparative more whimsome, superlative most whimsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by whim; whimsical
    • 2009, Bruno Massé, The Noxious and the Daemon Flower:
      Indeed, while I worked away at various duties concerning my rank and station, the country folk conspired against me, muttering suspiciously behind closed doors like a band of cowardly rodents, and so chanced one another into some dreadfully whimsome labels and a fairly hasty, hand-tailored casus belli – all seditious themes which turned distrust to anger and anger to transgression, whence a single handful of...agitators somehow convinced their would-be peers that my assets and, more importantly, my right, had somehow worsened their condition.
    • 2012, Kirsty Stonell Walker, The Kissed Mouth: The Pug of Doom:
      John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful.
    • 2013, Kristian Moen, Film and Fairy Tales: The Birth of Modern Fantasy:
      A condescending tone is evident in a Photoplay article titled “Little Miss Practicality” in which the author characterizes her as a “Winsome, whimsome little lady” and “just a charming, fascinatingly pretty girl, whose charm is such a strange, wayward, elusively and delightfully feminine thing”.
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