fanciable

Etymology

fancy + -able

adj

  1. (UK, informal) Worthy or likely to be fancied; sexually attractive.
    […] I wondered where the poor soul had seen a less fanciable maiden than herself in our village, or any other. 1929, Eden Phillpotts, “Mother’s Misfortune”, in The Torch and Other Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 105
    she’s only been on one date at uni, which involved sitting at a bar with a male specimen she’d thought was an interesting person, who was obviously swiping his phone to see if someone more fanciable was in the vicinity before making his pathetic excuses about having to do revision 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, “Yazz”, in Girl, Woman, Other, London: Hamish Hamilton
  2. (dated) Able to be fancied (imagined or supposed).
    doubt reasonably and fairly entertained as opposed to vague or fanciable doubt 1936, Code of Georgia Annotated, Harrison Company, page 155
    […] the factual basis for such a contention is more fanciable than real. 1948, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Commerce Clearing House

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