newfangled

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.
Fond of novelty.

/ˌnjuːˈfæŋ.ɡəɫd/ /ˌnuˈfæŋ.ɡəld/ en-au-newfangled.ogg

newfangled new-fangled new fangled

From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).

oldfangled old-fashioned

danfangled newfangle

danfangled newfangledly newfangledness newfanglement

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