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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.
a1470Tiptoft Cæsar ii. (1530) 12 He was man new fanglyd and ambicious. c1496Serm. Episc. Puer. (W. de W.) b iij, Boyes of fyfty yere of age are as newe fangled as ony yonge men be. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. iii. (1870) 132, I am not new fangled, nor neuer wyll be. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 74 Diuers new phangled felows sprong vp of late, as the Brownists. a1659Bp. Brownrig Serm. (1674) I. xi. 155 Imputations..cast upon these new fangled Christians. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 103 Make these new-fangled prisoners stand upright. 1792Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 163 How much dependence is to be placed on these new-fangled statesmen? 1867Trollope 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.
1670Marvell Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 351 All the French curiosityes and trinkets, of which our people are so new-fangled. 1785in A. C. Bower's Diaries & Corr. (1903) 23 So excessively am I new-fangled with my present.
2. New-fashioned, novel. (Used in depreciation.)
a1533Frith Disput. Purgat. (1829) 123 Let us see and examine more of this new-fangled philosophy. 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 68 Me thinkes I see the bite y⊇ lipp, At queinte newfanglid vanities. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man iii. (1603) 254 Gorgeous apparell and new fangled fashions. 1648Gataker Myst. Cloudes 2 Endeavouring to draw Disciples after them, by broaching of new-fangled fancies. 1726Leoni Designs Pref. 1 New-fangled Proportions which give pain to the sight. 1789Belsham Ess. II. xl. 496 A new-fangled and mystical state-oratory. 1830Cunningham Brit. Paint. II. 11 To flaunt about, after the deliriums and new-fangled whims of fashionable people. 1876Freeman 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.
1882Ogilvie. 1883J. Martin Reminisc. Old Haddington 42 She had a great dislike to ‘newfangledism’. |