单词 | newfangle |
释义 | newfangleadj.n. Now colloquial and regional (chiefly Scottish). A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fond of novelty or new things newfangle?a1300 newfangledc1496 neophiliac1942 ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xxxv, in Anglia (1881) 4 197 (MED) If þi loverd is neufangel, Ne be þou nout forþi outgangel Mid illore iwon. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 4367 (MED) Every newe love quemeth To him which newefongel is. c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 618 So newefangel [v.r. newe faggil] been they of hir mete And louen nouelries of propre kynde. a1450 ( in J. Kail 26 Polit. Poems (1904) 56 (MED) We ben newe fangyl, vnstable in dede. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) III. 1229 The moste party..hylde wyth sir Mordred..the people were so new-fangill. 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. v Emonge vs of the courte, we be meschaunt and newfangle, that we bye the other peple. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. vi. 141 The lusty matronis newfangill of sik thyng. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vii. 311 He wold not haue them newfangle, wanton, and phantasticall in their apparel. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James I in Wks. (1711) 9 The English..with new Guises daily resorted hither, and turned New-fangle the Court. 1723 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. I. 62 A Paris Edition of newfangle Sany. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 138 Newfangle grown wi' new got form, You soar aboon your mither worm. 1826 D. Anderson Poems in Sc. Dial. 8 Nor are they to incomes newfangle, Until acquainted wi' their character. a1852 R. Lochore in J. G. Wilson Poets & Poetry Scotl. (1876) I. 385/2 They left the newly-kipp'lt pair, Baith loving an' newfangle That noted night. 2. = newfangled adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new, novel, or not previously known newOE fresha1382 unhearda1382 new-founda1425 raw1448 newfanglec1450 newfangled?1531 new-fashioned1574 novile1586 modern1590 newelty1590 unheard1592 novellous1601 new-discovered1609 novelizing1625 nouvelle1650 new-type1887 edgy1976 c1450 C. d'Orleans Poems (1941) 118 (MED) My sovl lady are ye to y day Withouten choyse as of newfangille thought. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 85v Newfangill, nuperus. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes , in Wks. (1557) 150 Brynging up of some newe fangle heresies. 1578 in Private Prayers Reign Queen Elizabeth (1851) (modernized text) 465 So fond are we Englishmen of strange and foreign things, so greedy of new-fangle novelties. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. 179 Neglecting newfangle trickes or flashes of extemporary wit. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 42 He..that vainly covets novelties, and listens after every new fangle opinion. 1720 A. Ramsay Concl. 3 Ye're [sc. a book] newfangle to be seen, In gilded Turkey clad, and clean. 1818 Examiner 4 Jan. 3/2 I..am not therefore at once content with..your new-fangle term of ‘Other-worldliness’. 1821 W. Liddle Poems 193 Nae doubt the twae were baith newfangle. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways III. xiii. 256 ‘Well, it's cheap, it ain't bad; it's cooling. But it ain't refreshing.’ ‘Just what I reckoned all that newfangle rubbish.’ 1937 D. M. Jones In Parenthesis vi. 148 All the odds and ends lying about were so newfangle. 1993 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 12 June d14 Updating ‘Helena’ to a 1925 setting—new signs, fewer horses, more of those newfangle automobiles. B. n. A new thing or fashion; a novelty; an innovation, a new feature. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > a new thing or novelty newOE noveltyc1384 novelry1395 novela1450 novality?c1450 neweltyc1475 newel1484 newinga1500 newfangle?1510 novalty1563 newelry?1578 fangle1583 newie1924 ?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv So hathe these newe fangles our welthe obscured. 1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 167v The fashion is changed, but streyght they wyll Haue other newe fangles, worse or as yll. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. Ee.ij Men, that are busied with new fangles at the least once in a daie. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 96 The changes, innovations, newfangles, and hurly-burlies of his time. a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) 21 You broach new fangles; you devise new waies, And give more licence to licencious daies. 1835 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 285 A new-fangle in their een's but a new fangle. 1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 75 Like mony new-fangles, ye're brisk, New Year! 1955 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 24 147/2 What of debate in the Negro college after the passing of more than a half century?..What new fangles have made their appearance? 1986 Time (Nexis) 25 Aug. 62 Manhunter..is a police procedural with some smart new fangles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † newfanglev. Frequently depreciative. Obsolete. transitive. To make newfangled; to change (a thing) into something new or different. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > make new or novel [verb (transitive)] newOE innew?a1475 newfangle1530 novelize1631 to freshen up1746 to fresh up1831 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 644/1 I newefangyll. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xci. sig. F3v Some glory..in their garments though new-fangled ill. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 21 Not hereby to controule, and new fangle the Scripture. 1861 Temple Bar 2 539 He will new-fangle all our old-fashioned schemes. 1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) iv. 64 The will..being stagnant, straightway is corrupt To..dank noisomeness: New fangling the one healthy life it was Into a thousand most brain-sickly shapes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.?a1300v.1530 |
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