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• /wɪm/
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• /ʍɪm/ without the wine–whine merger
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• rhymes with -ɪm
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• CMU ARPABET: W IH1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Clipping of whim-wham.

Compare whimbrel.

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: rrebe — fanciful impulse
• Arabic: نَزْوَة (nazwa) — fanciful impulse
• Azerbaijani: şıltaq — fanciful impulse
• Belarusian: капры́з (kaprýz) — fanciful impulse
• Belarusian: пры́мха (prýmxa) — fanciful impulse
• Central Bikol: kauragan — fanciful impulse
• Bulgarian: прищя́вка (prištjávka) — fanciful impulse
• Bulgarian: капри́з (kapríz) — fanciful impulse
• Catalan: antull — fanciful impulse
• Catalan: capritx — fanciful impulse
• Catalan: caprici — fanciful impulse
• Catalan: dèria — fanciful impulse
• Catalan: curolla — fanciful impulse
• Chinese Mandarin: 怪念頭 /怪念头 (guàiniàntóu) — fanciful impulse
• Chinese Mandarin: 奇想 (qíxiǎng) — fanciful impulse
• Chinese Mandarin: 任性 (rènxìng) — fanciful impulse
• Chinese Mandarin: 心血來潮 /心血来潮 (xīnxuèláicháo) — fanciful impulse
• Czech: rozmar — fanciful impulse
• Czech: vrtoch — fanciful impulse
• Danish: indfald — fanciful impulse
• Danish: indskydelse — fanciful impulse
• Danish: grille — fanciful impulse
• Dutch: gril — fanciful impulse
• Esperanto: kaprico — fanciful impulse
• Finnish: oikku — fanciful impulse
• French: lubie — fanciful impulse
• French: caprice — fanciful impulse
• Galician: antollo — fanciful impulse
• Galician: reuto — fanciful impulse
• Galician: vértola — fanciful impulse
• Galician: peta — fanciful impulse
• Galician: gurrumío — fanciful impulse
• Galician: mecada — fanciful impulse
• Galician: celeima — fanciful impulse
• Galician: rautada — fanciful impulse
• Galician: oura — fanciful impulse
• German: Laune — fanciful impulse
• German: Grille — fanciful impulse
• German: Marotte — fanciful impulse
• German: Kaprize — fanciful impulse
• German: Verrücktheit — fanciful impulse
• German: wunderlicher Einfall — fanciful impulse
• Ancient Greek: σχεδίασμα (skhedíasma) — fanciful impulse
• Hebrew: גַּחֲמָה (gakhamá) — fanciful impulse
• Hungarian: szeszély — fanciful impulse
• Icelandic: dyntur — fanciful impulse
• Icelandic: duttlungur — fanciful impulse
• Icelandic: kenjar — fanciful impulse
• Italian: capriccio — fanciful impulse
• Italian: ghiribizzo — fanciful impulse
• Italian: fantasia — fanciful impulse
• Italian: stravaganza — fanciful impulse
• Italian: stranezza — fanciful impulse
• Italian: griccio — fanciful impulse
• Italian: stramberia — fanciful impulse
• Italian: grillo — fanciful impulse
• Italian: uzzolo — fanciful impulse
• Italian: sfizio — fanciful impulse
• Italian: gnagnera — fanciful impulse
• Japanese: 気紛れ (kimagure) — fanciful impulse
• Japanese: 移り気 (utsurigi) — fanciful impulse
• Kalmyk: яр (yar) — fanciful impulse
• Korean: 변덕 (byeondeok) — fanciful impulse
• Latin: arbitrium — fanciful impulse
• Macedonian: хир (hir) — fanciful impulse
• Māori: whakaaro ohia — fanciful impulse
• Norwegian Bokmål: innfall — fanciful impulse
• Iranian Persian: ویر (vir) — fanciful impulse
• Polish: kaprys — fanciful impulse
• Polish: widzimisię — fanciful impulse
• Portuguese: inspiração — fanciful impulse
• Portuguese: capricho — fanciful impulse
• Romanian: capriciu — fanciful impulse
• Romanian: toană — fanciful impulse
• Russian: капри́з (kapríz) — fanciful impulse
• Russian: при́хоть (príxotʹ) — fanciful impulse
• Russian: блажь (blažʹ) — fanciful impulse
• Russian: причу́да (pričúda) — fanciful impulse
• Serbo-Croatian: хи̑р — fanciful impulse
• Serbo-Croatian: hȋr — fanciful impulse
• Slovak: vrtoch — fanciful impulse
• Slovak: rozmar — fanciful impulse
• Slovene: kaprica — fanciful impulse
• Spanish: capricho — fanciful impulse
• Spanish: ventolera — fanciful impulse
• Spanish: antojo — fanciful impulse
• Swedish: nyck — fanciful impulse
• Swedish: infall — fanciful impulse
• Tajik: инҷиқӣ (injiqi) — fanciful impulse
• Tajik: нозунуз (nozunuz) — fanciful impulse
• Turkish: kapris — fanciful impulse
• Turkish: heves — fanciful impulse
• Ukrainian: капри́з (kaprýz) — fanciful impulse
• Ukrainian: при́мха (prýmxa) — fanciful impulse
• Ukrainian: забага́нка (zabahánka) — fanciful impulse
• Ukrainian: за́баг (zábah) — fanciful impulse
• German: Göpel — large capstan