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Whim v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whim v. [f. WHIM sb.1]

1   1.  † a. intr. With it: To play the whimsical fellow. † b. trans. To put off by a whim or fancy. c. To desire capriciously, to have an odd fancy for. Hence Whimming ppl. a., whimsical, capricious.

2 1704.  T. Baker, Act at Oxf., III. ii. 32. Blo. [Aside] The Rogue whims it rarely.

3 1710.  R. Ward, Life H. More, 216. He knew not, how he came to be whimm’d off from it (as his expression was).

4 1787.  Howie, Plain Reas. Diss., 215. [The motion] was rejected on the whimming pretence there was no present danger.

5 1842.  Mrs. Trollope, Vis. Italy, I. x. 153. What he whimmed to will, that he had power to do.

6 1860.  S. Martin, Westm. Chapel Pulpit, ii. 15. He expects us to do not what we whim.

7   2.  intr. Of the head: To be giddy, to ‘swim.’ Now dial.

8 1700.  Congreve, Way of World, IV. 61. My head begins to whim it about—Why dost thou not speak? thou art both as drunk and as mute as a Fish.

9 1716–20.  Lett. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 88. The first Night he retired to his Chamber, his Head whimm’d immediately.

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