- 1[intransitive, transitive] (informal) used to show that you are surprised or shocked by something fancy doing something Fancy meeting you here! fancy something “She remembered my name after all those years.” “Fancy that!”
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- 2[transitive] fancy (that)… (literary) to believe or imagine something She fancied (that) she could hear footsteps.
fancy
verbNAmE//ˈfænsi//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they fancy he / she / it fancies
past simple fancied
-ing form fancying
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