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say it: wim
whim is a noun meaning "a sudden desire". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an odd or fanciful or capricious idea
“the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories”
“he had a whimsy about flying to the moon”
“whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whim come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.