Sekirov Dictionary

fangle

/ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/

noun 4
verb 3
forms 3

noun4

Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
A conceit; whim.
(no longer used) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.

verb3

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(dialect, no longer used) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.”
(dialect, no longer used) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
(dialect, no longer used) To waste time; trifle.

forms

fangled · fangling · fangles

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