fandangle
/fanˈdaŋɡ(ə)l
/noun archaic
A useless or purely ornamental thing: a solo with no end of shakes and trills and fandangles...
- I started at Soda, and almost immediately got thrown into a flat-buying fandangle, where all my spare money went into saving up for a deposit on the flat.
- ‘Balancing’ an online sample by using census figures of the entire U.S. is - to put it euphemistically - a fandangle.
- Well it all started off with old Gaybo looking slightly confused and out-of-step with the new fandangle toys which adorned the Late Late Show's set some years back.
Origin
Mid 19th century: perhaps from fandango, influenced by newfangle.
Rhymes
- reformable
- Reform Act
- reformado
- reformat
- reformate
- re-formation
- reformation
- reformation act
- reformational
- reformationary
- reformationist
- reformation statute
- reformatist
- reformative
- reformator
- reformatory
- reformatory school
- reformatory ship
- Reformatski
- Reformatskii
- Reformatskij
- Reformatsky
- reform bill
- reform bishop
- reform club