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Qué (quién) es FANCY - definición
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Fancy (music); Fancy (disambiguation); Fancy (album); Fancy (song)
fancy
I. WANTING, LIKING, OR THINKING
(fancies, fancying, fancied)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you fancy something, you want to have it or to do it. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
What do you fancy doing, anyway?...
I just fancied a drink.
VERB: V -ing, V n
2.
A fancy is a liking or desire for someone or something, especially one that does not last long.
She did not suspect that his interest was just a passing fancy.
= whim
N-COUNT: usu with supp
3.
If you fancy someone, you feel attracted to them, especially in a sexual way. (INFORMAL)
I think he thinks I fancy him or something.
VERB: V n
4.
If you fancy yourself as a particular kind of person or fancy yourself doing a particular thing, you like the idea of being that kind of person or doing that thing.
So you fancy yourself as the boss someday?...
I didn't fancy myself wearing a kilt.
VERB: V pron-refl as n, V pron-refl -ing
5.
If you say that someone fancies themselves as a particular kind of person, you mean that they think, often wrongly, that they have the good qualities which that kind of person has.
She fancies herself a bohemian...
...a flighty young woman who really fancies herself.
VERB: V pron-refl n, V pron-refl
6.
If you say that you fancy a particular competitor or team in a competition, you think they will win. (BRIT)
You have to fancy Bath because they are the most consistent team in England...
I fancy England to win through.
VERB: V n, V n to-inf
7.
You say 'fancy' or 'fancy that' when you want to express surprise or disapproval.
It was very tasteless. Fancy talking like that so soon after his death...
'Fancy that!' smiled Conti.
EXCLAM [feelings]
8.
If you take a fancy to someone or something, you start liking them, usually for no understandable reason.
Sylvia took quite a fancy to him...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n/-ing
9.
If something takes your fancy or tickles your fancy, you like it a lot when you see it or think of it.
She makes most of her own clothes, copying any fashion which takes her fancy.
PHRASE: V inflects
II. ELABORATE OR EXPENSIVE
(fancier, fanciest)
1.
If you describe something as fancy, you mean that it is special, unusual, or elaborate, for example because it has a lot of decoration.
It was packaged in a fancy plastic case with attractive graphics.
...fancy jewellery.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
If you describe something as fancy, you mean that it is very expensive or of very high quality, and you often dislike it because of this. (INFORMAL)
They sent me to a fancy private school.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
fancy
I
n.
1) to take a fancy to
2) to catch, strike, take (BE), tickle smb.'s fancy
3) a passing fancy
4) a flight of fancy
II
v.
1) (d; tr.) ('to like') to fancy as (I don't fancy him as an actor)
2) (G) ('to like') I don't fancy going there
3) (G) ('to imagine') just fancy winning first prize
4) (L) ('to imagine') she fancied that she heard footsteps
Fancy
·adj Extravagant; above real value.
II. Fancy ·vi To Love.
III. Fancy ·noun A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad.
IV. Fancy ·adj Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.
V. Fancy ·vi To figure to one's self; to believe or imagine something without proof.
VI. Fancy ·noun An opinion or notion formed without much reflection; caprice; whim; impression.
VII. Fancy ·noun That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
VIII. Fancy ·vt To believe without sufficient evidence; to imagine (something which is unreal).
IX. Fancy ·vt To form a conception of; to portray in the mind; to Imagine.
X. Fancy ·noun An image or representation of anything formed in the mind; conception; thought; idea; conceit.
XI. Fancy ·noun Inclination; liking, formed by caprice rather than reason; as, to strike one's fancy; hence, the object of inclination or liking.
XII. Fancy ·vt To have a fancy for; to Like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
XIII. Fancy ·noun The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination.
Ejemplos de uso de FANCY
1. "You see a large number of fancy cars and boys cruising around in fancy clothes in fancy cars.
2. "I like fancy paintings, fancy names, things like that.
3. The cloak was added to the companys fancy dress stock and moved to Angels Fancy Dress shop, on Shaftesbury Avenue.
4. "We didn‘t do anything fancy," explained Osborne.
5. "Pretty fancy, huh?" Bush asked, mocking himself.