What does fangle mean?
Fangle means To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create..
Fangle
/ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/ · verb
Meaning
To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create..
Definitions by Sense
- To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
- To waste time; trifle.
- (obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
- Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
- A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- A conceit; whim.
Example Sentences
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.”
[…]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]
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Word Forms
- fangles
- fangling
- fangled
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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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