newfangled, a.
(njuːˈfæŋg(ə)ld)
Also 6 -fangulyd, -phangled.
[f. newfangle a.]
1. Very fond of novelty or of new things; unduly ready to take up new fashions or ideas; easily carried away by whatever is new.
| a 1470 Tiptoft Cæsar ii. (1530) 12 He was man new fanglyd and ambicious. c 1496 Serm. Episc. Puer. (W. de W.) b iij, Boyes of fyfty yere of age are as newe fangled as ony yonge men be. 1547 Boorde Introd. Knowl. iii. (1870) 132, I am not new fangled, nor neuer wyll be. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 74 Diuers new phangled felows sprong vp of late, as the Brownists. a 1659 Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) I. xi. 155 Imputations..cast upon these new fangled Christians. 1732 T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 103 Make these new-fangled prisoners stand upright. 1792 Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 163 How much dependence is to be placed on these new-fangled statesmen? 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset I. xvi. 142 When his time came to be made a bishop, he was not sufficiently new-fangled; and so he got passed by. |
† b. Const. of or with. Obs.
| 1670 Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 351 All the French curiosityes and trinkets, of which our people are so new-fangled. 1785 in A. C. Bower's Diaries & Corr. (1903) 23 So excessively am I new-fangled with my present. |
2. New-fashioned, novel. (Used in depreciation.)
| a 1533 Frith Disput. Purgat. (1829) 123 Let us see and examine more of this new-fangled philosophy. 1579 G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 68 Me thinkes I see the bite y⊇ lipp, At queinte newfanglid vanities. 1598 R. Barckley Felic. Man iii. (1603) 254 Gorgeous apparell and new fangled fashions. 1648 Gataker Myst. Cloudes 2 Endeavouring to draw Disciples after them, by broaching of new-fangled fancies. 1726 Leoni Designs Pref. 1 New-fangled Proportions which give pain to the sight. 1789 Belsham Ess. II. xl. 496 A new-fangled and mystical state-oratory. 1830 Cunningham Brit. Paint. II. 11 To flaunt about, after the deliriums and new-fangled whims of fashionable people. 1876 Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 440 Those new-fangled sources of income which arose out of the new-fangled feudal tenures. |
Hence newˈfangledism, fondness for novelty; newˈfangledly adv., in a newfangled manner.
| 1882 Ogilvie. 1883 J. Martin Reminisc. Old Haddington 42 She had a great dislike to ‘newfangledism’. |