noun
Meaning 1
A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
fangle
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/ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/ without æ-raising
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[ˈfæŋ.ɡl̩] without æ-raising
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/ˈfeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/ æ-raising
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[ˈfeɪ̯ŋ.ɡl̩] æ-raising
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/ˈfɛ̃ŋ.ɡəl/ æ-raising
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[ˈfɛ̃ŋ.ɡl̩] æ-raising
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rhymes with -æŋɡəl
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CMU ARPABET: F AE1 NG G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A conceit; whim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 5
To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
Examples
- 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.”
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verb
Meaning 6
To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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verb
Meaning 7
To waste time; trifle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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History
Etymology
Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.
From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.