Fancied

Definition

fancy /'fænsi / v ( pt, pp fancied ) ၁။ ( Brit infml ) လိုသည္။ ဆႏၵရိွသည္။ I fancy a cup of tea. ❍ What do you fancy for supper? ❍ I didn't fancy living by the sea. ၂။ ထင္သည္။ He fancied (that) he heard footsteps behind him. ၃။ ( infml esp Brit ) ႀကိဳက္သည္။ I think she fancies me. ၄။ ထင္သည္။ Which horse do you fancy in the next race? ❍ She thinks she's certain to get the job but I don't fancy her chances myself. ❍ Australia are strongly fancied to retain the trophy. ၅။ ( esp Brit ) (အံ့ေရာ စသည့္ အာေမၮိတ္စကား)။ Fancy that! ❍ Well, fancy her being so rude! ❍ Fancy never having seen the sea! adj (-ier, -iest) ၁။ (က) ထူးျခားေသာ ဆန္းျပားေသာ။ That's a very fancy calculator! ❍ a fancy piece of footwork. (ခ) ထူးဆန္းေသာ။ ဆန္းျပားေသာ။ fancy cakes/goods. ၂။ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ေသာ၊ ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ Don't start getting any fancy ideas. ❍ Top designer labels tend to come with fancy price tags to match. ၃။ ( US ) ဆန္းျပားေသာ။ fancy vegetables. n ၁။ [C] စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ျခင္း။ စိတ္ကူး။ silly teenage fancies ❍ evil fancies that returned to plague him at night. ၂။ [U] စိတ္ကူးယဥ္မႈ။ စိတ္ကူး။ ၃။ [C usu pl ] ( Brit) ပန္းေရး ကိတ္မုန္႔ကေလး။ a box of iced fancies. ❏ catch/take sb's fancy [ IDM ] မ်က္စိက်ရာ။ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္။ She looked in all the shops but there was nothing that caught her fancy. ❏ fancy dress n [U] ဆန္းျပားေသာဝတ္စံု။ I'm going to the fancy dress ball as Mickey Mouse. ❏ fancy-free adj အိမ္ေထာင္စသည္အေႏွာင္အဖြဲ႕မရိွေသာ၊ မရိွေသးေသာ။ She's footloose and fancy-free. ❏ fancy oneself [ IDM ] ( Brit infml often derog ) ဘဝင္ကိုင္ေနသည္။ စိတ္ႀကီးဝင္ေနသည္။ ❏ fancy oneself as sth [ IDM ] (အဆိုေက်ာ္၊ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ မင္းသမီးစသည္ျဖင့္) သူ႕ကိုယ္သူ အထင္ေရာက္ေနသည္။ She rather fancies herself as a singer. ❏ take a fancy to sb/sth [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) အႀကိဳက္ေတြ႕သည္။ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ I've suddenly taken a fancy to ghost stories. ❏ take/tickle sb's fancy [ IDM ] မေနာေခြ႕သည္။ The idea tickled his fancy. ❏ when / whenever the fancy takes one [ IDM ] စိတ္ကူးေပါက္တိုင္း၊ စိတ္ကူးရတိုင္း။ She seems to flit across the Atlantic whenever the fancy takes her.

Examples

1. What do you fancy for your lunch?
2. I quite fancy the idea of lazing around.
3. [fancy doing something] : Do you fancy going to the cinema?
4. I think Steve fancies you!
5. [fancy someone for something] : I fancy Manchester United for the Cup this year.
6. [fancy your chances (for something)] : So
7. do you fancy your chances for tomorrow’s game?
8. [fancy someone to do something] : Oxford are strongly fancied to win this year’s Boat Race.
9. He sometimes fancied that he heard strange sounds.