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Learn to pronounce fan·cy

/ˈfansē/
verb
  1. feel a desire or liking for.
    "do you fancy a drink?"
    synonyms: wish for, want, desire, long for, yearn for, crave, have a yearning/craving for, hanker after, hunger for, thirst for, sigh for, pine for, dream of, covet, have a yen for, itch for, be desirous of, desiderate
  2. regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner.
    "I fancy him to win the tournament"
  3. imagine; think.
    "he fancied he could smell the perfume of roses"
    synonyms: think, imagine, guess, believe, have an idea, suppose, gather, surmise, suspect, conjecture, be of the opinion, be of the view, be under the impression, think it likely/conceivable, reckon

noun
  1. a feeling of liking or attraction, typically one that is superficial or transient.
    "this does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy"
    synonyms: desire, urge, wish, want, inclination, bent, whim, impulse, caprice, notion, whimsy, eccentricity, peculiarity, quirk, kink, preference, fondness, liking, partiality, predilection, predisposition, taste, relish, love, humor, penchant, yearning, longing, hankering, craving, pining, ache, hunger, thirst, need, yen, itch
  2. the faculty of imagination.
    "my research assistant is prone to flights of fancy"
    synonyms: imagination, imaginative faculty/power, creativity, creative faculty/power, conception, fancifulness, inventiveness, invention, originality, ingenuity, cleverness, wit, artistry, images, mental images, visualizations
  3. (in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form.

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