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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1791
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¶WHIM-ME-GARY, n. Whimsicality, pretentiousness, caprice.Edb. 1791 J. Learmont Poems 403:
His late prais'd taste is whim-me-gary, His wife's an ugly clatt'ring goose.
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