Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To trifle.
- n. A new fancy; a novelty; a fancy.
- n. A large, irregular bundle of straw tied together at intervals, and serving as a torch.
Wiktionary
- v. To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- v. To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
- v. To waste time; trifle.
- n. obsolete A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
- n. Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
- n. A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- n. A conceit; whim.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- v. obsolete To fashion.
Etymologies
- Derived erroneously from new-fangle (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thats right dave, These kids and their new fangle internet stuff.”
“They are just donating online through bundlers (new fangle name for lobbyists).”
“Hasn't quite gotten used to this new fangle techno-camera stuff.”
“On another plus side, ammo is available at most gun shops r Wal-marts, and K-Marts, get a new fangle caliber and you may have a gun on a hunt with no Ammo.”
Is the Ruger No. 1 in .325 the right rifle for elk and mule deer?
“The ladye shee was new-fangle, but yett shee was affrayd.”
Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series
“She is one, she knows not what her self if you ask her, but she is indeed one that has taken a toy at the fashion of religion, and is enamoured of the new fangle.”
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
“Dese yer new-fangle 'schools don' l'arn 'em nothin 'ter compare wid it.”
“With all the new fangle-dangles of these days, women voting and all, you're a lucky boy to have found an old-fashioned girl!”
“I cannot make head or tail of these far-fetched new-fangle notions you, somehow or other, have fallen in love with -- your James”
“A work exhibiting the spelling, and explaining the meaning, of these new-fangle 'hard words' was the felt want of the day; and the first attempt to supply it marks, on the whole, the most important point in the evolution of the modern English”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fangle’.
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fasten-ating
a reflection on the Indo-European root pag & pak to fasten
peace, pay, patio, fay, fang, impact, pax, newfangled, pagan, peasant, pectin, spinto and 58 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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all the angles
and sides
rangle, fangle, fingle-fangle, bangle, dangle, gangle, jangle, mangle, tangle, wangle, wrangle, brangle and 82 more...
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