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
- normal-faulted
- normal forest
- normal form
- normalien
- normalisable
- normalisation
- normalise
- normalism
- normalist
- normality
- normalizable
- normalization
- normalize
- normalizer
- normally
- normally aspirated
- normalness
- normal school
- normal science
- normal state
- Norman
- Norman Conquest
- Normande
- Normandy
- Normandy butter