fangle

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  1. To trifle. For his love that ʒou dere boʒth Hold ʒou stil and fangel notʒth Sordem aperte deprecantes. Reliquiæ Antiquæ, I. 257.
  2. A new fancy; a novelty; a fancy. There was no feather, no fangle, jem, nor jewel … left behind. Greene, Mamillia (1583). We may be assur'd that if God loathe the best of Idolaters prayer, much more the conceited fangle of his prayer. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. A hatred to fangles and the French fooleries of his time. Wood, Athenæ Oxon., II. col. 456.
  3. A large, irregular bundle of straw tied together at intervals, and serving as a torch.

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  • I'm not sure what to make of your discovery of a gear-making gizmo called a fangle , except that it is definitely not the source of our word newfangled , meaning "of a new kind." —  The Word Detective
  • Interestingly enough, once newfangled meant "of a brand-new kind," some people got a bit confused and decided that fangle was a separate word that must mean "silly gizmo" or "novelty." —  The Word Detective
  • Social media and all the new-fangle tools and applications that come with it are not a fad. —  SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
  • This was deinitely Floyd's most interesting period as they tried to fangle a post-Syd future with David Gilmour's voice and guitar very much to the fore. —  Word Magazine -
  • Measuring for that there noo-fangle notion of yours Yes, I am," cried Vane; "and what then Oh, nowt, sir, nowt, only it wean't do. —  The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
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  1. Middle English fangelen, apparently from fangen, take, seize; cf. fangle, n. (not found in Middle English, except as in comp. new-fangle).
  2. Evolved from new-fangle, regarded, erroneously, as new and *fangle, n., a fancy: see new-fangle.
  3. Prob. orig. connected with fangle.
 

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