My Word Of The Day is FANCIFIER. I know it's a word since I just read it in one of

[abqtommy]

those Reader's Digest Condensed Books that was originally published in 1981. But does
any online dictionary/thesaurus I accessed recognize this word? NO! As used in the
story I'm reading, a FANCIFIER is a person who engages in fanciful thinking. So there.

This experience just goes to show that ya can't always trust The Internet!

[ret5hd]

1. Sounds cromulant to me.

[Donkees]

2. ''designed by French fancifier'' ''Provider & Fancifier at Avondale... ''furniture fancifier'' ...

If you add keyword 'French' to 'fancifier', you'll find more of these:

''Tachard was a notorious fancifier''

''apocalyptic fancifier''

''they are inspired fancifiers''

[abqtommy]

3. Oh, I found some examples of 'fancifier' but no definitions. It's a conspiracy! nt

[Donkees]

4. 'fancify in British English ...'

fancify
in British English

VERB
Word forms: -fies, -fying or -fied

(transitive)
1. to imagine (something)
2. to make more fancy
You can fancify your mashed potatoes by adding all sorts

[Donkees]

5. "fancifier" "embellisher"

the word "fancifier" = "embellisher" etc. has been around for a long time, and it's been occasionally used as a synonym of "liar" as early as ca. 1930 ... but it hasn't been common.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/wordoriginsorg/liar-liar-pants-on-fire-t10839.html

em·bel·lish (ĕm-bĕl′ĭsh)
tr.v. em·bel·lished, em·bel·lish·ing, em·bel·lish·es

2. To add ornamental or fictitious details to: a fanciful account that embellishes the true story.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

[Donkees]

8. I know, but that particular usage is probably obsolete, while the other root forms remain.

[abqtommy]

9. Obsolete when it was printed in a book in 1981? Come on, it's a conspiracy, I tell ya! nt

[Donkees]

10. That word seems more common in several 1930's UK stories, various writers ...

Modern costume dramas also recreate language in use at their time and region.

The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life
How awful, Deborah thought, that two honest people like Muv and Farve could give life to such 'fancifiers' as Nancy and Jessica. A fancifier is a lovely name for a liar.

[abqtommy]

11. Well, the 1981 story I have seen the word 'fancifier' in is written by an American

author and concerns a pilot flying the mail in the 1928 American West. And nothing
excuses this diabolical plot to exclude The Word from any dictionary!