FANCIES

Definition: FANCIES

FANCIES

Plural

1. Of Fancy

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FANCIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: FANCIES

English words defined with "FANCIES": Actualist ♦ Fantasied ♦ in the bonnet ♦ Maggotish ♦ shadowy ♦ wraithlike. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FANCIES": Baisser ♦ Delusion, Dinah ♦ Jeff K. ♦ Leonine Verses ♦ Maritornes, Money ♦ Raul, Red Rag, Reptile ♦ Welsh Rarebits, Windmills. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	In mine, there was no time for bright fancies and happy inventions, no stopping for tea. The only game we played was to survive, or go to war. If you didn't win, you just didn't finish. (Sleuth; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)
Movie/TV Titles	Fads and Fancies (1934) Funny Fancies by Hy Mayer (1913) Fruit Fancies (1994)
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Domain	Title
Books	Chicago Facts & Fancies Caprices & Curiosities: Wit & Wisdom: The Insider's Guide to the Passions, Possessions and Pleasures of the Power Elite in t (reference) Palm Beach Facts and Fancies, Caprices and Curiosities (reference) Skin Flutes and Velvet Gloves: A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities About the Body's Private Parts (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Cage: The City Wears a Slouch Hat/Fads & Fancies in the Academy/A Chant with Claps (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Doctor. "See strange figures, curious fancies, hey?..." / Gray Parker.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Author	Quotation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld	He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Every offence, that can be committed in the state of nature, may in the state of nature be also punished equally, and as far forth as it may, in a commonwealth: for though it would be besides my present purpose, to enter here into the particulars of the law of nature, or its measures of punishment; yet, it is certain there is such a law, and that too, as intelligible and plain to a rational creature, and a studier of that law, as the positive laws of commonwealths; nay, possibly plainer; as much as reason is easier to be understood, than the fancies and intricate contrivances of men, following contrary and hidden interests put into words; for so truly are a great part of the municipal laws of countries, which are only so far right, as they are founded on the law of nature, by which they are to be regulated and interpreted. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. All hail, Delusion! Were it not for thee The world turned topsy-turvy we should see; For Vice, respectable with cleanly fancies, Would fly abandoned Virtue's gross advances. Mumfrey Mappel
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"FANCIES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 67.58% of the time. "FANCIES" is used about 182 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-s form)	67.58%	123	28,925
Noun (plural)	32.42%	59	44,010
Total	100.00%	182	N/A

Expression using "FANCIES": aerial fancies. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "FANCIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		花梢 (Fancy). (various references)

Finnish		houreet (delirium, ravings). (various references)

German		wähnt. (various references)

Korean		공상 (Chimeric, Chimerical, Fancier, Fancy, Fancying). (various references)

Pig Latin		anciesfay

Swedish		griller (fads, whims). (various references)

Turkish		fanteziler (aerial fancies). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FANCIES": fanciest. (additional references)
	Words ending with "FANCIES": infancies. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"FANCIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fancye, Fanica, Fanshawes, Fanshel, fanties, Fianuis, Fincas, Finicus, Finzis, francesi, francise, Frankies, funicles, Nancies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FANCIES" (pronounced fa"nsēz)
4	-n s ē z	agencies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, frequencies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, pregnancies, presidencies, redundancies, residencies, tendencies, transparencies, vacancies.
3	-s ē z	accuracies, archdiocese, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, controversies, courtesies, crises, cruces, delicacies, democracies, diagnoses, embassies, epilepsies, fallacies, fantasies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, privacies, prognoses, prophecies, prostheses, proxies, taxis, theses.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: fascine, fiances.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-s"
	-1 letter: casein, facies, fiance, incase.
	-2 letters: acnes, anise, cafes, cains, canes, cines, faces, fanes, fices, fines, naifs, neifs, saice, scena, since.
	-3 letters: aces, acne, ains, anes, anis, asci, cafe, cain, cane, cans, case, cine, face, fain, fane, fans, fens, fice, fine, fins, fisc, ices, naif, neif, nice, safe, sain, sane, scan, seif, sice, sine.
	-4 letters: ace, ain, ais, ane, ani, can, cis, efs, ens, fan, fas, fen, fie, fin, ice, ifs, ins, nae, sac, sae, sea, sec, sei, sen, sic, sin.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, an, as, ef, en, es, fa, if, in, is, na, ne, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-s"
	+1 letter: caffeins, faciends, faiences, fanciers, fanciest, fascines, fiancees, finances, unifaces.
	+2 letters: affiances, bonifaces, caffeines, canfields, carnifies, casefying, defiances, fancifies, fanciness, fascinate, franchise, infancies.
	+3 letters: affections, archfiends, candlefish, chieftains, cofinances, confiscate, craftiness, facileness, falconries, fascinated, fascinates, feminacies, financiers, fornicates, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, fricandoes, hawfinches, interfaces, jackknifes, refinances, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, ventifacts.
	+4 letters: affirmances, affluencies, chaffinches, chiffonades, confidantes, confiscable, confiscated, confiscates, defecations, enfranchise, fanaticizes, fancinesses, farinaceous, fianchettos, finicalness, flagrancies, flippancies, forecasting, fragrancies, franchisees, franchisers, franticness, fricandeaus, magnificoes, misfeasance, prefinances, refractions, resurfacing, sanctifiers.
	+5 letters: acriflavines, affectations, benefactions, beneficiates, candlefishes, centrifugals, cliffhangers, confessional, craftinesses, defalcations, deifications, disaffecting, disaffection, disfranchise, disinfectant, edifications, effeminacies, enfranchised, enfranchises, facilenesses, factiousness, fancifulness, fantasticate, fantasticoes, fecundations, fictionalise, flatulencies, forbiddances, forensically, fractionates, frankincense, fricasseeing, gemeinschaft, inefficacies, infanticides, infomercials, interfacings, malefactions, maleficences, metafictions, misfeasances, pontificates, rarefactions, reifications, rubefacients, safecracking, significance, somnifacient, stupefaction, transfecting, transfection, tumefactions, unclassified.
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