A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea. / (mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes

(rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.

A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.

plural of whim

(idiomatic) Without thinking seriously about the consequences.

(astronomy) Initialism of warm-hot intergalactic medium.

simple past tense and past participle of whim

present participle of whim

(obsolete) A whimsical object; a trinket. / A whim or fancy. / (in the plural) A state of nervous anxiety.

plural of whim-wham