Roguish vs Whimsy - What's the difference?
roguish | whimsy |
unprincipled or unscrupulous
mischievous and playful
* 1840 , The Novel Newspaper (volume 2, page 8)
A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim.
To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
* J. Fletcher
As an adjective roguish
is unprincipled or unscrupulous.As a noun whimsy is
a quaint and fanciful idea a whim playfully odd behaviour.As a verb whimsy is
to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.roguish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "She'll be a match for poor little Cupid, with his tiny bow and arrow, I dare say," said Grace Fitzgerald, with a roguish eye.
Derived terms
* roguishly * roguishnesswhimsy
English
Alternative forms
* whimseyNoun
(en-noun)- The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.
- Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
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Verb
- To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.