Usually means: Playful, fanciful quality or behavior.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word WHIMSY:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. whimsy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whimsy: Merriam-Webster
  3. whimsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whimsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whimsy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whimsy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whimsy, whimsy: Wordnik
  8. whimsy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whimsy: Wiktionary
  10. whimsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whimsy (whimsey): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whimsy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whimsy: Dictionary.com
  14. whimsy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. whimsy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Whimsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whimsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whimsy: Rhymezone
  19. Whimsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whimsy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whimsy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. whimsy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WHIMSY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whimsy: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whimsy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whimsy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whimseys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whimsy)

noun:  A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
noun:  An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
noun:  (mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
noun:  A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
noun:  (glassblowing, countable) The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
verb:  (transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
adjective:  Synonym of whimsical

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