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n. One who has a special enthusiasm for or interest in something: a fancier of antiques.

n. One who breeds a plant or an animal for those features held to be desirable.

adj. comparative form of fancy: more fancy

n. One who fancies a person with a special interest, attraction or liking for something. An aficionado.

n. A person who breeds or grows a particular animal or plant for points of excellence.

n. One who is governed by fancy.

n. One who fancies or has a special liking for, or interest in, a particular object or class or objects; hence, one who breeds and keeps for sale birds and animals

n. One who fancies or has a special taste or aptitude: used of one who deals in objects of fanciful taste: as, a bird-fancier; a tulip-fancier.

n. One who is under the influence of his fancy: as, “not reasoners, but fanciers,” Macaulay.

n. a person having a strong liking for something

"It allows Wood to make the same kind of criticism that has always been made of Updike, but to dress it up in fancier crittalk ( "free indirect style"): Updike is too besotted with language."

adorer    admirer   

animal fancier    technophile    bird fancier    maniac