Definition of Whim

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Definition of Whim

Whim

The European widgeon.

A sudden turn or start of the mind; a temporary eccentricity; a freak; a fancy; a capricious notion; a humor; a caprice.

A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey.

To be subject to, or indulge in, whims; to be whimsical, giddy, or freakish.

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Whim Quotations

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
Ludwig von Mises

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
Henry Fielding

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Richard Le Gallienne

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.
Joan Van Ark

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
C. S. Forester

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
Stephen Breyer

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.
Henry M. Morris

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
Rachel Hunter

Whim Translations

whim in Dutch is bevlieging, bui, gril, nuk, kuur
whim in Finnish is oikku
whim in French is caprice
whim in German is Laune
whim in Italian is capriccio
whim in Latin is libido
whim in Spanish is capricho
whim in Swedish is nyck, infall

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