feel a desire or liking for

do you fancy a drink?

regard (a horse, team, or player) as a likely winner

I fancy him to win the tournament

imagine; think

he fancied he could smell the perfume of roses

he fancied himself as an amateur psychologist

elaborate in structure or decoration

the furniture was very fancy

a fancy computerized system

(of a drawing, painting, or sculpture) created from the imagination rather than from life

I used to take a seat and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes

a superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction

this was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

the faculty of imagination

he is prone to flights of fancy

a small iced cake

chocolate fancies

(in 16th and 17th century music) a composition for keyboard or strings in free or variation form