newfangle, a. and n. Now dial.
(njuːˈfæŋg(ə)l)
Forms: 4–5 newe-, 4– new-; 4 -fongel, 4–5 -fangel, 4–6 -fangil, (5 -ille, -yl(le, 6 -ill), 6– -fangle.
[ME. newefangel, f. newe- new a. + -fangel, repr. OE. *fangol ‘inclined to take’, from the stem fang- (infin. fón) to take. Cf. MDu. nievingel(heit).]
A. adj.
1. = newfangled 1.
| c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 610 So newefangel been they of hire mete, And louen nouelrie of propre kynde. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 273 Every newe love quemeth To him which newefongel is. c 1400 26 Pol. Poems 56 We ben newe fangyl, vnstable in dede. 1470–85 Malory Arthur xxi. ii. 841 The moost party..helde with sire mordred, the peple were soo newe fangle. 1513 Douglas æneis xiii. vi. 141 The lusty matronis newfangill of sik thyng. 1583 Babington Commandm. (1590) 274 He would not haue them new⁓fangle, wanton, and phantasticall in their apparell. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. I, Wks. (1711) 9 The English..with new guises daily resorted hither, and turned new⁓fangle the court. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 36 A Paris edition of new-fangle Sany. a 1773 Fergusson Wks. (1800) 114 Newfangle grown wi' new got form, You soar aboon your mither worm. 1826 D. Anderson Poems 8 (E.D.D.), Nor are they to incomes newfangle, Until acquainted wi' their character. |
2. = newfangled 2.
| 1578 in Priv. Prayers (1851) 465 So fond are we Englishmen of strange and foreign things, so greedy of new-fangle novelties. 1614 Jackson Creed iii. 179 Neglecting new⁓fangle trickes or flashes of extemporary wit. 1655 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. iii. (1669) 15/2 He..that vainly covets novelties, and listens after every new-fangle opinion. 1720 Ramsay Concl. 3 Ye're [a book] newfangle to be seen, In gilded Turkey clad, and clean. |
B. n. A new thing or fashion; a novelty.
| c 1520 Treat. Galaunt (1860) 16 So hath the newe fangles our welth obscured. 1581 Rich Farew. (1846) 224 Men, that are busied with new fangles at the least once a daie. 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xxvii. (1632) 96 The changes, innovations, newfangles, and hurly burlies of his time. 1897 J. Wright Sc. Life 75 Like mony new-fangles, ye're brisk, New Year! |
Hence newˈfangle v., to make newfangled.
| 1530 Palsgr. 644/1, I newefangyll. c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. xci, Some glory..in their garments, though new-fangled ill. 1641 Milton Prel. Episc. 21 Not hereby to controule, and new fangle the Scripture. 1861 Temple Bar II. 539 He will new-fangle all our old-fashioned schemes. |