What does new-fangled mean?
New-fangled means Alternative spelling of newfangled..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Alternative spelling of newfangled..
Well, I'm an old man, you know. I've got old-fashioned ways. And I'm afraid of all this progress, and these new-fangled ideas.
All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: […] “I am too much i’ the sun” – […] incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actors to adopt a knowing expression and say i’ – as if this actually added anything to the meaning.
Use new-fangled when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
New-fangled means Alternative spelling of newfangled..
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Well, I'm an old man, you know. I've got old-fashioned ways. And I'm afraid of all this progress, and these new-fangled ideas.
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