whimsy

A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.

[…] Take heed of filling their [i.e., children's] heads with VVhimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this vvill ſooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than ſober and humble.

These days! where e'en th' extravagance of poetry, / Is at a loss for figures to express / Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy, / And by a faint description makes them less.

An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.

A whim (capstan or vertical drum).

A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.

"Dori, you have to solve this puzzle!" / "Sure, right away doctor. Quality construction … clean edges. Oh, a whimsy!"

The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.

To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.

A wantonneſſe in wealth, methinks I agree not with, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jewells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains whimſied with his wealth: […]

Synonym of whimsical.

Whimsiest of the fairy brood, I cannot scold you if I would

[…] and if in a whimsy mood I choose to read the opening chapters last, and the closing chapters first, […]