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newfangled

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new⋅fan⋅gled

  [noo-fang-guhld, -fang-, nyoo-]
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–adjective
1. of a new kind or fashion: newfangled ideas.
2. fond of or given to novelty.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME, equiv. to newefangel fond of or taken by what is new (newe new + -fangel, OE *fangol inclined to take, equiv. to fang-, s. of fōn to take (cf. fang 2 ) + -ol adj. suffix) + -ed 3

Related forms:
new⋅fan⋅gled⋅ness, noun
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new·fan·gled   (nōō'fāng'gəld, nyōō'-)   
adj.  

  1. New and often needlessly novel. See Synonyms at new.

  2. Fond of novelty.


[Middle English newfanglyd, fond of novelty, alteration of neufangel : newe, new; see new + *-fangel, taken; see pag- in Indo-European roots.]
new'fan'gled·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

newfangled 
c.1470, "addicted to novelty," lit. "ready to grasp at all new things," from adj. newefangel "inclined to take" (c.1386), from new + -fangel, from root of O.E. fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1533.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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