[f. WHIM sb.1]
1. † a. intr. With it: To play the whimsical fellow. † b. trans. To put off by a whim or fancy. c. To desire capriciously, to have an odd fancy for. Hence Whimming ppl. a., whimsical, capricious.
1704. T. Baker, Act at Oxf., III. ii. 32. Blo. [Aside] The Rogue whims it rarely.
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 216. He knew not, how he came to be whimm’d off from it (as his expression was).
1787. Howie, Plain Reas. Diss., 215. [The motion] was rejected on the whimming pretence there was no present danger.
1842. Mrs. Trollope, Vis. Italy, I. x. 153. What he whimmed to will, that he had power to do.
1860. S. Martin, Westm. Chapel Pulpit, ii. 15. He expects us to do not what we whim.
2. intr. Of the head: To be giddy, to ‘swim.’ Now dial.
1700. Congreve, Way of World, IV. 61. My head begins to whim it about—Why dost thou not speak? thou art both as drunk and as mute as a Fish.
1716–20. Lett. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 88. The first Night he retired to his Chamber, his Head whimm’d immediately.
