Whimmy


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Whim´my


a.1.Full of whims; whimsical.
The study of Rabbinical literature either finds a man whimmy or makes him so.
- Coleridge.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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SHOPPERS watched their groceries doing somersaults after Whimmy Walker the clown proclaimed he could juggle with anything he could get his hands on, as a stunt in Coventry precinct to advertise that the circus is in town.
Look what I can do Whimmy hands!
Their discourse and manner of reasoning I thought so much above their appearance, and so apropos to the present times, that I soon resolv'd to put them down in a paraphrastic doggrel, and send them to you as a present, either to publish, or suppress, just as your whimmy fancy pleased.
Popular protest in the eighteenth century: John Collier (Tim Bobbin), 1708-1786

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