Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- New-made; new-fangled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See
newfangled .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fangle .
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alexz commented on the word fangled
An 1886 article where they say dictionary makers got the meaning of 'Fangled' wrong.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=WkwAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA86
'In the north of Ireland the word "fangled " is still used in the sense of entangled or trammelled. I may give as a homely illustration of the use of the word, " the cow has got fangled in her tether," i.e., she has entangled her legs in her tether.'
June 12, 2016