fangle

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

fangles

V_ing/Gerund

fangling

V_ed/pp

fangled

1.
(dialectal, obsolete)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.”
2.
(dialectal, obsolete)To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
3.
(dialectal, obsolete)To waste time; trifle.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

fangles

1.
(obsolete)A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
2.
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
3.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
4.
A conceit; whim.

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newfangle newfangled

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English fangelen, from fangel (inclined to take), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (inclined to take), from fōn (to take, seize). Compare andfangol, underfangelnes, fangen, fangen to catch. More at fang.