Newfanglement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Newfanglement is a noun meaning (uncountable) The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish.
Meaning
(uncountable) The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish.
More Meanings
- (countable) Something that is newfangled.
Example Sentences
Fogg's house on savile Row is a steampunk paradise of newfanglement.
So it is in traffic of all sorts, which this world lives upon; it's all newfanglement, and that's the fashion of the times.
And, alas! there are even strange golfers who are sighing always for newfanglements, feeling that the things they cannot or must not have, are much better than the things they are blessed with.
Everybody know it but nobody wants hear it 'count hearin' don't make nothin' no better. Some things hearin' 'bout make things worse. Ain't like dyin' is some newfanglement nobody ever heard nothin' 'bout afore.
Word Forms
- newfanglements
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fangle, newfriend, fandangle, neofan, freshmanship, phancy.
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