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newfangled
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Word definitions for newfangled in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: new ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The regional companies rely on customer service rather than on marketing newfangled products. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As word spread about the newfangled invention and more people saw it in action, the guillotine became ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "addicted to novelty," literally "ready to grasp at all new things," from adjective newefangel "fond of novelty" (late 14c.), from new + -fangel "inclined to take," from root of Old English fon "to capture" (see fang ). Sense of "lately come ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Newfangled \New"fan`gled\, a. Newly made; of a new type or fashion; formed with the affectation of novelty; -- sometimes used to express disapproval or disdain. ``A newfangled nomenclature.'' --Sir W. Hamilton. Disposed to change; inclined to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context usually derogatory or humorous English) Contemptibly modern, unfamiliar, or different.
Usage examples of newfangled.
The watch was the newfangled bandless kind that literally tells you the time.
The watch was that newfangled bandless kind that literally tells you the time.
But if I am no moth-eaten alchemist, neither am I some newfangled astronomer who feigns eccentrics and epicycles and suchlike in order to save the phenomena, when he knows full well that there are no such engines within the orbs.
When James de Guider had driven off in a little newfangled trap, he dismounted and came towards her.
This newfangled accounting seemed highly risky, and Mack thought investors needed to know about it.
Strabismus drew the diagrams but used the newfangled appliqué alphabets printed on transparent cellophane for the lettering.
It is an outgrowth of the school my great-great grandmother started with the newfangled ideas she brought with her from America.
I am not up to waltzing or any of the newfangled round dances, but give me a Highland schottische, or a square dance, when there is an inventive genius to call off the figures and prescribe plenty of variety.
In a culture where women fret over vaginal looseness and are chided continuously to practice kegels or even to consider extreme newfangled vaginal rejuvenation surgeries, the reality is that a well-positioned manual clasp will serve the purpose more effectively.
I had to estimate the pressure by eye-if you get it too low, these newfangled tubeless tires will come away from the rim and let all the air out, leaving you in worse shape than before.
There were no homely bread trenchers here and gingerly Cressida handled the newfangled two-pronged fork provided.
And if curses could sink anything, all these newfangled motorboats would be on the bottom of the canal.
It was at this period of her career that she began to type-ize, individualize, synthesize, dramatize, superiorize, analyze, poetize, angelize, neologize, tragedify, prosify, and colossify--you must violate the laws of language to find words to express the newfangled whimsies in which even women here and there indulge.
There, beneath the discarded rows of coprocessors, was the souwe of the lambent blue sheen: the newfangled bio-gel packs that were rapidly becoming the next generation of Starfleet data-processing technology.
There, beneath the discarded rows of coprocessors, was the source of the lambent blue sheen: the newfangled bio-gel packs that were rapidly becoming the next generation of Starfleet data-processing technology.