New-fangled

Quick meaning: New-fangled is an adjective meaning Alternative spelling of newfangled.

Meaning

Alternative spelling of newfangled.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• newer-fangled
• newest-fangled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include newfashioned, old-fangled, new-found, neoterical, new-made, newfounded.

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