whimsomeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

whimsome ‎(comparative more whimsome, superlative most whimsome)

1. Characterised or marked by whim; whimsical
   • 2009, Bruno Massé, The Noxious and the Daemon Flower:

     Indeed, while I worked away at various duties concerning my rank and station, the country folk conspired against me, muttering suspiciously behind closed doors like a band of cowardly rodents, and so chanced one another into some dreadfully whimsome labels and a fairly hasty, hand-tailored casus belli – all seditious themes which turned distrust to anger and anger to transgression, whence a single handful of...agitators somehow convinced their would-be peers that my assets and, more importantly, my right, had somehow worsened their condition.

   • 2012, Kirsty Stonell Walker, The Kissed Mouth: The Pug of Doom:

     John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful.

   • 2013, Kristian Moen, Film and Fairy Tales: The Birth of Modern Fantasy:

     A condescending tone is evident in a Photoplay article titled “Little Miss Practicality” in which the author characterizes her as a “Winsome, whimsome little lady” and “just a charming, fascinatingly pretty girl, whose charm is such a strange, wayward, elusively and delightfully feminine thing”.