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fancied

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Imagined, supposed, or believed, sometimes without firm evidence; it may also mean conceived with pleasure or preference, as in “a fancied joy.”

Detailed Definition
Here, fancied means Barney imagined himself to be something he was not. In older or literary English, it can carry the sense of self-deluded confidence or a private notion, which suits the comic portrait of Barney as “quite the star.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“Now Barney, he fancied himself quite the star” means imagined or supposed; “She fancied the cloud a white sailing ship”; “He fancied himself immune to winter”; “The poet fancied voices in the reeds”
Additional Notes
In “he fancied himself,” the verb is used in an older literary sense that many readers may not immediately parse.; Found in the poem, Love is Deaf: The Ballad of Barney McBard by Richard
Also Known As
imagined envisioned fanciful dreamed
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