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whim-wham

/hwim-hwam, wim-wam/US // ˈʰwɪmˌʰwæm, ˈwɪmˌwæm //

呜呼哀哉,呜呜呜,呜呜哇哇,呜呼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any odd or fanciful object or thing; a gimcrack.
    • : whim-whams, Informal. nervousness; jitters: He had the whim-whams after the accident.

Examples

  • That was 2010, when Williamson was seven, less than two years after painting his first picture on a whim.

  • And neither he, nor his secret police squad or some lawyer from Detroit, get to change that unilaterally on a whim.

  • Was it really, as I suspected, ordered on a whim by some yahoo who was deeply affected by a childhood encounter with Grave Digger?

  • These demands can increase at whim, and worsen with the birth of a child.

  • She was distraught and sad walking through a park on Long Island when she joined a drum circle on a whim.

  • She was not a puffer, but a puffer-whim worked near by, called the Valley puffer.

  • This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.

  • In short, he may gratify his every whim and fancy, without a pang of reposing conscience, or the least jostle of his self-respect.

  • Here, every stroke was to be recorded, each passing whim and mood registered, as in a book of fate.

  • She paid no thought to the value of money, never knowing how to resist a whim.