THE FANCY

Definition: THE FANCY

THE FANCY

1. All of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. --De Quincey. Syn: Imagination; conceit; taste; humor; inclination; whim; liking. See Imagination .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Amusement

Verb: amuse, entertain, divert, enliven; tickle the fancy; raise a smile, put in good humor; cause laughter, create laughter, occasion laughter, raise laughter, excite laughter, produce laughter, convulse with laughter; set the table in a roar, be the death of one.

Combatant

Prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler;prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock.

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Crosswords: THE FANCY

You can't hurt Christmas, Mr. Mayor, beacuse it isn't about the the gifts or the contest or the fancy lights (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

Ham and cheese again! And she forgot the fancy mustard (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

The Pride of the Fancy (1920)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The fancy dress party (reference)

• Summer of the Fancy Man [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Henry L. Howison, seated in his cabin, 1886. Probably photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City. Note the fancy oil lamp, binoculars on the table, and silver service on the chest behind Capt. Howison. The original print is a letterpress reproduction. Credit: NAVY.

Scene in the ship's after cabin in 1886, when Captain Henry L. Howison was Commanding Officer. Probably photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York City. Note the fancy oil lamp above the table, pictures and other items on the chest of drawers, and Japanese fan and extensive book shelving on the bulkheads. The large set of identically-bound volumes on the top shelf at left is "The American Encyclopædia". Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational, (and labour was to be his title to it;) not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding

The rest of their costume was according to the fancy of misery

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "THE FANCY": catch the fancy ♦ catch the fancy of. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

харесвам се (catch on, catch the fancy, go down well). (various references)

Hungarian

megtetszik neki (to catch the fancy of, to take the fancy of). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay ancyfay.(various references)

Romanian

amatorii de sport. (various references)

Russian 

понравиться кому-л. (catch the fancy of), понравиться (catch the fancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavoleti (catch the fancy, catch the fancy of, cotton, fancy oneself, take a fancy to). (various references)

Turkish

meraklılar, özel zevkleri olan. (various references)

Welsh

ffansi%ol (fanciful, pleasing the fancy). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chantey.

-2 letters: chanty.

-3 letters: canty, chafe, chant, cheat, enact, facet, fancy, fetch, hance, hefty, hyena, natch, neath, tache, teach, techy, tench, thane, theca, yacht, yenta.

-4 letters: ache, achy, acne, ante, cafe, cane, cant, cate, cent, chat, chay, chef, cyan, each, eath, etch, etna, face, fact, fane, fate, feat, feta, fyce, haen, haet, haft, hant.

+3 letters: chieftaincy.

+5 letters: ichthyofaunae.