CAPRICE, CAPRICIOUS
ADJECTIVES
– capricious; apt to take offense, touchy MIFFY 1750 Eng. dial.
– capricious; changeable GERFUL c1374 obs.
– capricious, crotchety, contrary, perverse MAGGOTTY; MAGGOTY 1678
– capricious; fanciful, faddy, fickle FANCICAL; FANCICLE; FANSICLE 1671 rare exc. Eng. dial.
– capricious; fickle; difficult to deal with, esp. because touchy, obstinate, or intractable KITTLE 1568 orig. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– capricious; flighty FEATHER-MINDED Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– capricious; flighty, brainless; foolish, silly, witless HEN-HEADED B1900 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– capricious; flighty, brainless; foolish, silly, witless HEN-MINDED 1892 Amer. dial.
– capricious, frivolous, giddy WANTON 1538 obs.
– capricious; full of fancies FANTASIOUS c1489 obs. rare
– capricious; vagarious VAGARISOME 1883
– capricious; whimsical, changeable; peevish, discontented; proud, conceited MAWKY 1854 Eng. dial.
– capricious; whimsical, flighty, fickle, changeable; acting as if under the moon’s influence MOONISH c1407 obs. or arch.
– capricious; whimsical, full of vagaries, erratic VAGARIOUS 1827
– capricious; whimsical; full of whims or fancies MAGGATIVE; MAGGOTIVE 1866 Sc.
– capricious; whimsical; full of whims or fancies MAGGATIVOUS 1866 Sc.
– capricious; whimsical; full of whims or fancies MAGGOTTING Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– capricious; whimsical; full of whims or fancies MAGGOTY-HEADED 1894 Sc.
– capricious; whimsical; full of whims or fancies MAGGOTY-MINDED Bk1905 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
– a caprice, whim; a palaver, fuss VARIORUM 1857 Sc. obs.
– a caprice, whim, fancy MAGGOT 19C Eng. dial.
– a caprice, whim, fancy; an absurd notion or fancy; generally in plural MEGRIM 1831 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– a capricious, fantastic, or eccentric action or piece of conduct VAGARY 1629
– caprice, whim WANTONNESS 1595 obs.
– caprices, airs, whims with an implication of temper; tantrums ANTRIMS 1884 Eng. dial.
– caprices, whims, fussiness of disposition NIFF-NAFFS 1808 Sc.
– capricious irregularity or variability VAGARITY 1886 rare
– capriciousness, lightness, fickleness FEATHERINESS 1689
NOUNS, PERSON
1500 ► BUTTERFLY a capricious, giddy, or frivolous person, esp. one having a gaudy or showy appearance
1681 ► MAGGOT a capricious or whimsical person
20C ► GOOGEEN a capricious, fidgety person; generally used of a woman → Irish sl.
1903 ► HAMLET a capricious troubled, or indecisive person; an introspective, philosophical man of dreams rather than of action
1972 ► MINNY MOUSE a capricious, hapless, scatterbrained person; a kind but simple-minded sort → homosexual sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
1864 ► TIG-TOW to act capriciously; to play fast and loose with; to behave irresponsibly or immorally; to dally with → Sc.
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