Fancy

Definition: Fancy

Fancy

Adjective

1. Not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes".

Noun

1. Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy".

2. Fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination.

3. A predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey".

Verb

1. Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!" "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy".

2. Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for; "She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Fancy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a Frenchman".

Date "fancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Mining

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

Synonyms: Fancy

Animal

Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.

Belief

Think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive, trow, ween, fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess, entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion, hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an opinion; n.

Caprice

Noun: caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy, whimsey, whimwham; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot, fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade, wild-goose chase; capriciousness; Adjective: kink.

Dearness

Noun: dearness; Adjective: high price, famine price, fancy price; overcharge; extravagance; exorbitance, extortion; heavy pull upon the purse.

Desire

Noun: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.

Desideratum; want; (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.

Imagination

Verb: imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name".

Love

Verb: love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love; with Adjective: have a love; n. for, entertain a love; n. for, harbor cherish a love; n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one's affections on; make much of, feast one's eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.

Ostentation

Dress; court dress, full dress, evening dress, ball dress, fancy dress; tailoring, millinery, man millinery, frippery, foppery, equipage.

Supposition

Verb: suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize; presume, presurmise, presuppose; assume, fancy, wis, take it; give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted; imagine.

Wit

Noun: wit, humor, wittiness; sense of humor; attic wit, attic salt; atticism; salt, esprit, point, fancy, whim, drollery, pleasantry.

Crosswords: Fancy

Now get them out of here before she sees them! Look away, just look away, keep your eyes that way! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

She likes your butt and fancy hair (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Fancy that (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser)

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)

This is a mission, not a fancy dress ball (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

So long ago I made a decision to be footloose and fancy free (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

Do your fancy dances you can't stop you just stroke me, stroke me (THE STROKE; performing artist: Billy Squier)

In your fancy car (Bring It All To Me; performing artist: Blaque)

Fancy gloves, oh, wears old MacHeath, babe ("Mack the Knife"; performing artist: Bobby Darin)

It ain't fancy, baby that's OK (Born To Be My Baby; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

A Little of What You Fancy (1968)

Fancy Plants (1967)

The Trial of Dr. Fancy (1964)

A Young Man's Fancy (1952)

My Fancy Goodbye (1951)

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

Books

• Akiko: Flights of Fancy (reference)

• Fancy Goldfish: A Complete Guide to Care and Collections (reference)

• Fancy Pants (reference)

• Just Plain Fancy (reference)

• Spring Fancy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cat Fancy (reference)

• Fancy Food And Culinary Products (reference)

• Dog Fancy (reference)

• Fancy Fowl (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Fun and Fancy Free (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fancy Meeting You Here (reference)

• Footloose & Fancy Free (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Razzle Dazzle - Fancy Sheet (reference)

• Nordic Ware Bundt Fancy Springform Pan with 2 Bottoms (reference)

• Nordic Ware Cast Aluminum Bundt Fancy Loaf Cake Pan (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Ship's Officers and Crew, 1934. Photographed by Vernon M. Haden, San Pedro California. Note stockless anchor in the port bow hausepipe, fancy hull number, and ship's dog held by the Sailor at left. Credit: NAVY.

In drydock at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 1888. Note fancy scrollwork on her bow bulwark, and reinforcing strip on the side of her ram bow. Credit: NAVY.

The old fancy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Bailey is awful nice teacher-- only she's fancy. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fancy seeing you here, Phil!. Credit: Library of Congress.

In the spring, a young man's fancy. Credit: Library of Congress.

A female suffrage fancy / J. Keppler. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fancy. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Maine, a fancy dress ball. Credit: Library of Congress.

Note on architecture. A new very fancy log bungalow showing influence of tobacco barn construction. Logs are painted black and white. Near Gordonton, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

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.

Though much might be fancy, he could not doubt, when he looked back, that she was in a weaker state of health than she had been half a year ago.

The two sisters wandered thus, each in her own fancy, when they were young girls

Fancy Ford roadster with little colored lights at fender guide, at radiator cap, and three behind

A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the King and Queen with an English tune upon this instrument

As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Trade

Philippines

Private grain dealers may import premium or fancy rice only with an Import Clearance issued by the NFA. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Very fancy French cuisine, cozy atmosphere. (references)

Ghana

Currently Accra's most upscale and fancy restaurant, French owned and run. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "fancy": fancy-dress, fancy-dress ball, fancy-dressed, Fancy-free, fancy-goods, fancy-looking, fancy-pants, fancy-schmancy, Fancy-sick, fancy-yourself.

Afrikaans

verbeeld hom (imagine). (various references)

Albanian

fantazi (daydream, dream, fantasia, fantasy, idea, imagination, make believe, phantasy), imagjinatë (fantasy, imagination, make believe, phantasy), ëndërrim (dream, fantasy, phantasy, reverie), dekorativ (decorative, ornamental), dua (aim, appreciate, be fond of, be keen on, be willing to, care, care for, choose, do with, intend, like, love, please, seek, take a fancy to, want, wish), ekstravagant (crazy, florid, high-flown), i hirshëm (attractive, charming, delightful, engaging, graceful), ëndërr (dream), i zbukuruar (beautified, decorated, smoked), trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fantasy, freak, kink, phantasy, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), imagjinoj (depicture, dream, give reins to one's imagination, image, imagine, realize, think up), luksoz (baronial, de luxe, exclusive, lavish, luxurious, palatial, plushy, rank, recherche, refined, rich, Swan, swanky, swell), mendoj (believe, conceive, consider, contemplate, deem, deliberate, dream up, elaborate, expect, feel, figure, guess, hold, imagine, judge, mean, opine, ponder, rate, reason, reckon for, reflect, regard, repute, say, study, suppose, take, think, Trow, try, understand, ween), pëlqej (affect, approve, enjoy, Favor, favour, like, love, please, relish, take to), përfytyroj (conceive, depicture, dream, dream up, envision, figure, figure to oneself, give rein to one's imagination, image, imagine, picture, realize, visualize), teka (caprice, whim), tekë (caprice, freak, kink, vagary, whim, whimsy), i sofistikuar (sophisticated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاخر (brag, deluxe, excellent, exquisite, fine, glory, luxurious, splendid, superior), ‏ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), ‏متعدد الألوان (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychromic, varicolored, versicolored, versicoloured), ‏متجر بالسلع الفاخرة, ‏مزخرف (adorned, decorated, decorator, embellished, flamboyant, florid, garnished, ornamented, ornate), ‏هواية (avocation, fad, hobby), ‏نزوة (caprice, crank, fantasy, freak, heat, maggot, phantasy, quirk, vagary, whim, whimsy), ‏وهم (bubble, delusion, idol, illusion, illusory, imagination, phantom, prestige, purport, vagary, vapor, vapour), ‏ولولة (enthusiasm, howl, ululation), ‏ولع ب (affect, be fond of, hack, hound, love, take a fancy to, take to), ‏توهم (suspect), ‏تخيل (conceive, dream up, envisage, feature, fiction, figure, figure to oneself, image, imagine, make believe, picture, project oneself, see, think, vision, visualization, visualize), ‏خيالي (aerial, chimerical, conceptual, fancied, fanciful, fantast, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, ideal, ideational, imaginary, imaginative, impracticable, mythical, notional, quixotic, romantic, unreal, utopian, visionary), ‏ظن (calculate, guess, imagine, misgiving, reckon, suppose, supposition, surmise, suspect, think), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

въображение (fantasy, imagination, invention, vision), измислен (fabled, fabulous, fictional, fictitious, made up, mythical, phantasmagoric, phoney, phony, spoof), представям си (conceive, dream, envisage, figure to oneself, image, imagine, picture to oneself, represent to oneself, see, suppose, think), пъстър (chequered, dapple, freckled, medley, motley, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, roan, skewbald, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), луксозен (de luxe, luxurious, luxury, plush, plushy, posh, ritzy, slapping), любов (amour, crush, flame, heart, love, love affair, partiality), желание (desire, eagerness, notion, pleasure, stomach, will, willingness, wish), направен по въображение, декоративен (decorative, ornamental), въображаем (abstract, fictional, ideal, imaginary, mythical, mythological, notional, phantom, unreal, visional, visionary), струва ми се (appear, guess, imagine, methinks), въобразявам си (image, imagine, represent to oneself, suppose, think), каприз (caprice, crank, fad, fit, freak, maggot, megrim, quirk, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy, whim-wham), фантазия (daydream, dream, fairy tale, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, invention, phantasy), фантазе, харесвам (affect, cotton, dig, like, relish, take a fancy to), хрумване (flash, idea, impulse, inspiration, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy, whim-wham), слабост (asthenia, crack, debility, demerit, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, frailness, frailty, impotence, impotency, inanition, infirmity, insufficiency, leanness, partiality, poorness, shortcoming, tenderness, tenuity, weakness), склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), вкус (choice, discernment, flavour, inclination, liking, palate, penchant, relish, sapor, savor, savour, smack, stomach, taste, tincture, tinge). (various references)

Chinese 

花梢 (Fancies), 花俏 . (various references)

Czech

fantazie (fantasy, imagination, phantasy, pipe dream, vision), zalíbení (Favor, favour, taste), vrtoch (freak, megrim, vagary, whim), přepychový (comfortable, lavish, luxurious, sumptuous), přemrštìný (camp, exorbitant, extravagant, glowing, gushing, hysterical, immoderate, steep, stiff, unreasonable), představit si (envisage, imagine, see, think, visualize), představa (conception, eidolon, idea, image, imago, notion, picture, view), ozdobný (decorative, ornamental), mít zálibu, módní (dressy, fashionable, modish, new-fashioned, prevalent, smart, stylish, swinging), luxusní (executive, grand, high-class, lush, palatial, smart, sumptuous), libùstka. (various references)

Danish

forestille (imagine, introduce, offer, perform, present, tender). (various references)

Dutch

zich verbeelden (imagine), bedenken (imagine, invent, reflect on, think, think about). (various references)

Esperanto

revi (daydream, dream), imagi (imagine), erarkredi. (various references)

Faeroese

hugsa sær (imagine), droyma (daydream, dream). (various references)

Farsi 

هوس (Caprice, Gee, Heartthrob, Libido, Lust, Scape, Whim, Whimsy), قوه مخیله , وهم (Delusion, Fiction, Mirage, Specter, Whim), تفننی , تصورکردن (Coneive, Imagine), تصور (Idea, If, Image, Notion, Picture, Supposition, Vision), تجملی , علاقه داشتن به , خیال (Design, Dump, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Idea, Ideology, Imaginary, Impression, Intention, Mind, Notion, Plan, Spectrum, Thought, Vision, Whim, Wraith). (various references)

Finnish

fantasia (fantasy), uneksia (daydream, dream), mielikuvitus (fantasy, imagination), luulottelu (imagination), luulotella (imagine, persuade oneself), kuvitelma (daydream, fiction, illusion), haave (fantasy, illusion). (various references)

French

songer, imaginer. (various references)

Frisian

ferbyldzje (imagine), dreame (daydream, dream). (various references)

German

sich einbilden (imagine), phantasie (fantasia, fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, phantasy), laune (caprice, frame, freak, humor, humour, mood, quirk, spirit, sulkiness, temper, vagary, vein, whim, whimsy). (various references)

Greek 

καπρίτσιο (caprice, whim, whimsy), κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), γούστο (taste), γουστάρω (feel like), ιδιοτροπία (caprice, crankiness, crotchetiness, faddiness, freak, kink, maggot, moodiness, quirk, tetchiness, vagary, whim, whimsicalness, whimsy), μου αρέσει (fond of, I like it), προτίμηση (bias, choice, penchant, predilection, preference), ωραίοσ (attractive, beauteous, beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, nice, peach, pulchritudinous, rot, winsome), φαντάζομαι (conceive, envisage, image, imagine, visualize), φανταστικόσ (fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictitious, imaginary, notional, unreal, vaporous, visionary), φανταστικός (brilliant, imaginary), φαντασία (conceit, fantasy, fiction, imagination, phantasy), φανταχτερόσ (flamboyant, flashy, garish, gaudy, jazzy, ornate, tawdry), λιμπίζομαι (covet, desire), αγαπώ (cherish, like, love). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפולפל (acute, peppery, spicy, subtle, tricky, witty), מאוה (desire, fantasy, wish), לתאר לעצמו (envisage, figure to oneself, imagine), לחבב (be fond of, cherish, endear, like), לנטות (deviate, dispose, extend, incline, lean, stretch, tend, tip, trend, turn aside), שגיון (caprice, fixed idea, foible, idee fixe, whim), קשוטי (decorative, ornamental), פרי דמיון (figment), אשליה (deception, delusion, illusion), הזיה (delirium, delusion, hallucination, stardust, superstition), דמיון (correspondence, fantasy, imagination, like, likeness, resemblance, semblance, similarity). (various references)

Hungarian

szeszély (caprice, fantasy, fit, kink, maggot, tantrum, whim, whimsy), képzeletbeli (chimerical, ideal, imaginary, insubstantial, notional, phantom, visionary), képzelet (dirty mind, fantasy, imagination, phantasy). (various references)

Indonesian

fantasi (fantasy, grotesque, illusion, imagination). (various references)

Italian

figurarsi (figure, imagine, picture). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

空想 (daydream, fantasy, vision), ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fanfare, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom), 好尚 (fashion, taste). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ファンシー , くうそう (daydream, fantasy, noncommissioned officer of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces, vision), こうしょう (a bite, advanced, announcing publicly, arsenal, artisan, authentication, conferring of an award, connection, discussions, fashion, high, investigation, licensed prostitution, loud laughter, loud or high-pitched voice, mechanic, negotiations, noble, notarization, occupational injury, oral tradition, ore deposit, passing on by word of mouth, public name, recitation, refined, registered prostitute, school badge, shining, spring of yellow buds, taste, Welfare Minister). (various references)

Korean 

공상 (Chimeric, Chimerical, Fancier, Fancies, Fancying). (various references)

Manx

yeearree (application, ask, aspiration, aspire, beseech, importune; prayer, intention, intreat, request, solicit, soliciting, wish, yearn), thollane (blockhead, fit of passion, giddy person, impulse), teiyt (high-grade, picked, plum, selected, well-chosen), sheiltynys (concept, conjecture, fantasy, hypothesis, presumption, speculation, supposition, theory), sheiltyn (conceive, conceiving, conjecture, guess, imagine, presume, speculate, suppose, supposing, theorize, visualize), mianey (desire, hanker, hankering, long, lust, wish), jesh (adept, becoming, elegant, felicitous, groomed, neat, ready, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, tidy, trim), fillosheragh (fanciful, fussy), er lheh (aloof, aside, certain, distinctive, isolated, patented, private and confidential, respective; privately, separate, separately, special, specially). (various references)

Norwegian

fantasi (imagination), pyntet, mønstret, innbilning (imagination). (various references)

Papiamen

figurá (imagine), imahiná (imagine), imaginá (imagine). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancyfay.(various references)

Polish

wyobrażać (imagine), marzyć (daydream, dream). (various references)

Portuguese

imaginar (conceit, conceive, concoct, contrive, deem, devise, dream, engineer, excogitate, expect, fable, fabricate, figure, guess, ideate, image, imagine, make believe, see, suppose, think, weave), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fantasia, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasm, phantasy, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical). (various references)

Romanian

fantezie (day dream, fantasy, fiction, freak, imagination, make believe, phantasy, reverie), fantezist (capricious, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, invented, lunar, notionist, phantasmal, strange, whimsical), fi amator de (fond), bizar (bizarre, droll, extravagant, quaint, queer, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, whimsical), cu toane (capricious, fanciful, maggoty, Moody, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), crede (account, accredit, assume, believe, consider, credit, deem, expect, figure, guess, imagine, put credit in, reckon, seeing is believing, suppose, think), considera (call, consider, count, debate, deem, describe as, esteem, examine, feel, find, give smb. credit for, guess, hold, interpret, judge, make, make out, personalize, put, rank, rate, regard, see, think), ciudat (cranky, curious, droll, eccentric, extraordinary, extravagant, fanciful, freakish, funny, intriguing, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, quaint, queer, rum, rummy, singular, strange, strangely, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), dambla, capricios (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, crotchety, difficult, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fickle, fitful, fractious, freakish, frolic, Froward, humoursome, peevish, perverse, vagarious, wanton, wayward, whimsical, whimsy), de lux, avea o pãrere grozavã despre sine, avea impresia (seem), auzi (hear, just fancy), atracţie (amenity, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charm, draw, endearment, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, grace, mind, pull, seduction), a-i plãcea (enjoy, have a fancy for, have a liking for, like, love), a-şi reprezenta, a-şi imagina (depicture, figure, get, imagine, picture to oneself, suppose), a-şi închipui (figure, image, picture to oneself, suppose), înclinare (batter, bent, bias, cant, cast, declension, dip, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, lurch, obliquity, pitching, slope, tilt), capriciu (caprice, crotchet, fad, freak, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy), iubi (care for, love), vis (chimera, dream, reverie, vision), utopie (dreamland, utopia), toanã (caprice, crotchet, freak, humor, humour, vagary, whim, whimsy), socoti (account, believe, calculate, call, cipher out, compute, consider, count, deem, esteem, examine, feel, figure, find, guess, hold, imagine, judge, make, number, put, rate, reckon, regard, suppose, tally, think, work out), se simţi atras (feel drawn to smb., take a fancy for, take a fancy to), ornamental (ornamental), multicolor (many-colored, many-coloured, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), de bal mascat, la modã (fashionable, in, in fashion, modish, prevailing, stylish), închipuire (chimera, idea, image, imagination, imagining, make believe, thought), imaginaţie (fiction, imagination, make believe, phantasy), imagina (conceive, devise, frame, ideate, imagine, invent, picture, think, visualize), extravagant (cracked, crazy, eccentric, exaggerated, extravagant, lunatic, rampant, unreasonable, wanton, wildcat), excentric (bizarre, crackpot, cranky, crazy, crotchety, eccentric, extravagant, fantastic, fantastical, lunatic, maggot, nut, odd, oddity, original, queer, tappet), de rasã (pedigreed, racial, thoroughbred), visa (daydream, dream), de calitate superioarã (exclusive, first class, first rate, high grade, sterling), marotã (bauble, fad). (various references)

Russian 

склонность (aptitude, bent, disposition, flair, inclination, inclination for, inclination to, leaning, liking, lurch, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, vocation, weakness, zest), расшитый, разукрашенный (frilly), фантазия (chimera, crotchet, fantasia, fantasy, make believe, moonshine, phantasia, phantasy), конек (crease, hobbyhorse, ice skate, pipit, ridge, skate, titlark), каприз (caprice, fit, freak, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), вообразить (imagine), воображение причудливый, воображение (fantasy, imagination, make believe, phantasy), воображать (envision, imagine, represent), модный (cheesy, de rigueur, fashionable, hip, modish, new-fashioned, nifty, nobby, saucy, snappy, stylish, swanky, trendy, with it), представлять себе (depicture, envisage, figure to oneself, imagine, realize, visualize). (various references)

Scottish

meanmnachd (spirit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fantazija (fantasia, fantasy, phantasy), zamisliti (conceive, ideate, imagine, plan, see, think), skup (aggregate, assemblage, bevy, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convolution, costly, expensive, gathering, ingathering, meeting, troop), sklonost (affinity, bent, bias, calling, fondness, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency), odličan (cool, corking, excellent, famous, lummy, slap up, stellar, swell, top-hole, topping), mašta (imagination, phantasy), luksuzan (luxe: de luxe, luxurious), kitnjast (flamboyant, gaudy, natty, ornamental, ornate), izvrstan (admirable, exquisite, superb), iluzija (illusion, mare's nest, mirage, trick), elegantan (classy, dressy, elegant, gracious, smart, snappy, swank), želja (appetite, desirability, desire, want, wish). (various references)

Spanish

figurarse (expect, figure, imagine, suppose, think), de fantasía (dreamy). (various references)

Swedish

tänka sig (figure, imagine, think of), lust (appetite, desire, impulse, inclination, mind, pleasure, yen), infall (crotchet, freak, idea, incursion, irruption, on the occasion of, vagary, whim, whimsicality). (various references)

Thai

ไม่ธรรมดา (different, rarely, remarkable), ชอบ (dig, fond (of), like, love), ปรารถนา (itch), จินตนาการ (conceit, envisage, feature, figure, imagination, imagine, see). (various references)

Turkish

fahiş (excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, out of sight, prohibitive, prohibitory, steep, stiff, unconscientious, unreasonable), farzetmek (assume, call, deem, imagine, opine, posit, presume, reckon as, reckon for, repute, say, suppose, theorize), fantezi kurmak (fantasize), fantezi (fantasia, fantasy, flamboyance, phantasy), düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, reasoning, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice), düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, excogitate, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), düşgücü, heves (alacrity, ambition, anxiety, Ardor, ardour, brio, cult, desire, eagerness, enthusiasm, fad, fit, freak, furor, furore, grace, inclination, itch, keenness, maggot, nine days' wonder, notion, relish, stomach, studiousness, whim, whimsey, whimsy, zeal), canı istemek (be in the mood to, feel like), hayal kurmak (day dream, dream, imagine, throw one's cap over the windmill), beğeni (acclaim, admiration, applause, credit, eclat, good taste, inclination, like, liking, regard, taste), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), garip (awkward, bizarre, codger, comical, cranky, crotchety, curious, droll, eccentric, exotic, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, far out, freak, freakish, funny, funny peculiar, grotesque, kinky, odd, out of the way, outlandish, poor, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, strange, weirdo, whimsical), hayâl etmek, özel zevk (hobby), düşlemek (imagine), merak (anxiety, avocation, bug, care, concern, crotchet, curiosity, disquiet, disquietude, fad, hobby, interest, sensation, whim, wonderment, worry), tasavvur etmek (conceive, imagine, shadow, think), sevmek (affect, be fond of, be sweet on smb., care, caress, dandle, enjoy, fondle, like, love, pet), sanmak (assume, conjecture, expect, flatter oneself, guess, imagine, presume, put down, repute, suppose, surmise, take, take for, think), süslü püslü (flamboyant, flaming, gaudy, meretricious, ornate), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, natty, ornate), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), moda (craze, fad, fashion, fashionable, go, in, in the fashion, mode, rage, style, the done thing, ton, trendy, vogue, with it), zevk (bang, delectation, delight, enjoyment, good taste, gratification, gusto, indulgence, kick, like, liking, luxury, meat, pleasure, relish, savor, savour, sweet, taste, treat), kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), kapris (caprice, fit, freak, kink, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), kanı (belief, conclusion, deliverance, esteem, estimation, eye, idea, impression, judgement, notion, opinion, persuasion, sense, sentiments, sight, surmise, thought, view), istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call on, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, enjoin, exact, hanker, hope, intend, invite, like, long, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish), imgelem (fantasy, imagination, phantasy), hoşlanmak (affect, be attracted, be partial to, be pleased with, be taken by, be taken with, care, click, delight, dig, enjoy, have a liking for smb., like, relish, take a fancy to, take a shine to smb., take to), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming). (various references)

Ukrainian

уява (fantasy, imagination, thought, vision, whimsey, whimsy), уявляти, фантазія (crotchet, day dream, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, moonshine, phantasy), вигадливий (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, arty-crafty, baroque, niggled, notionate, overwrought), орнаментальний (ornamental), мрія (ambition, dream, reverie, vow), модний (cheesy, chic, dressy, fashionable, in wear, modish, nifty, passant, snappy, spiffing, stylish, swellish), екстравагантний (fantastic, fantastical, outre, superlunary), примха (buzz, caprice, fad, fantasy, freak, maggot, megrim, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsey, whimsy), подобатися (like, please). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô lý đồng bóng tưởng tượng để làm cảnh, thị hiếu, có trang hoàng, để trang hoàng. (various references)

Welsh

ffansi%o, ffansi, dychymyg (device, imagination, riddle), crebwyll (invention). (various references)

Yucatec

ts'iiboltik (imagine). (various references)

somnium. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fancy": fancying, fancywork, fancyworks. (additional references)

Words ending with "fancy": infancy, unfancy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fancy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afandy, anci, Cancy, Fabc, facey, facp, facy, famc, fance, fanch, fancye, fangy, fank, fany, farcy, Farnby, Farnsby, fency, fenici, fensy, fiancy, finca, fingy, finky, flanky, fonc, Fonck, fonky, foonky, franky, Fsavc, mancy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cyan.

-2 letters: any, can, cay, fan, fay, nay.

-3 letters: an, ay, fa, na, ya.

+2 letters: carnify, fancify, fancily, infancy, unfancy.

+3 letters: falconry, fancying, feminacy, sanctify.

+4 letters: affluency, candytuft, casefying, fancywork, finically, flagrancy, flippancy, fragrancy, gyrfalcon, pacifying.

+5 letters: acetifying, acidifying, calcifying, candyfloss, candytufts, carnifying, clarifying, coalifying, confocally, effeminacy, fancifully, fancifying, fancyworks, flatulency, gyrfalcons, inefficacy, nonfaculty, opacifying, scarifying, tackifying.