Fangle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Fangle is a verb meaning To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
Meaning
To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
More Meanings
- To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
- To waste time; trifle.
- Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
- A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- A conceit; whim.
- (obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Example Sentences
[…]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,[…]
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.”
Word Forms
- fangles
- fangling
- fangled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include newfangle, fenagle, fabulate, faken, faggify, fand.
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