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is fancying

  • present progressive
    of fancy (3rd person singular).
    fancy
    adjective
    ornamental; decorative; not plain.

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Despite suffering a series of rocky results since winning the International Championship in the autumn, Trump is fancying his chances of landing a first world title this year.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2013

The speaker is fancying what others will think of his remarks, instead of fixing his mind entirely on the subject of discourse.

From The Elements of Character by Mary G. Chandler

“He is fancying himself a Spartan hero, and looking forward to laurels and history,” one of his neighbours remarked.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't see what, father," Mary said, after thinking for some time, "unless she is fancying since that it was this man who did it.

From The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

For a man is often innocent of love-making at the very moment a woman is fancying herself violently in love with him, and fancying, moreover, that he is in love with her.

From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison