Crossword clues for newfangled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 novelties; given to new theories or fashions. ``Newfangled teachers.''
--1 Tim. vi. (heading). ``Newfangled men.''
--Latimer.
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 into fashion" first recorded 1530s. Fanglement "act of fashioning; something made" is from 1660s. Middle English had gar-fangel "fish-spear."
Wiktionary
a. (context usually derogatory or humorous English) Contemptibly modern, unfamiliar, or different.
WordNet
adj. of a new (often outrageous) kind or fashion [syn: new]
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.