nounplural noun figaries

• A whim or sudden impulse.

  ‘he puts on these meals whenever he gets a figary’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The idea of raising the dam is not only a figary, it's foolery!’
  • ‘Sometimes what we require from our politicians is calm level-headedness rather than dreamy figaries or excessively blunt ambition.’
  • ‘The government has tried to claim the 'squeezed middle' is some media-created figary.’
  • ‘He took a figary and decided to set up a stall in Cork Market, selling mainly olives.’
  • ‘The Five Point Plan was just some figary he dreamed up while he was in hiding last week.’