Word Meanings - FANCYMONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.

Related words: (words related to FANCYMONGER)

• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• LOVER
  1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. 2. A friend; one strongly attached to another;
• WHIMSICALITY
  The quality or state of being whimsical; whimsicalness.
• WHIMSICALNESS
  The quality or state of being whimsical; freakishness; whimsical disposition.
• WHIMSICALLY
  In a whimsical manner; freakishly.
• WHIMSICAL
  1. Full of, or characterized by, whims; actuated by a whim; having peculiar notions; queer; strange; freakish. "A whimsical insult." Macaulay. My neighbors call me whimsical. Addison. 2. Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
• LOVER; LOVERY
  See HALL
• LOVEMONGER
  One who deals in affairs of love. Shak.
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• FREE-LOVER
  One who believes in or practices free-love.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• PLOVER
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
• HART'S CLOVER
  Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
• NORFOLK PLOVER
  The stone curlew.
• CLOVER
  A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm
• GLOVER
  One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.
• CLOVERED
  Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.