fangle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A prop; a taking up; a new thing. obsolete
  2. Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
  3. A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  4. A conceit; whim.
动词 v.
  1. To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create. dialectal,obsolete
    — […]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]
  2. To trim showily; entangle; hang about. dialectal,obsolete
  3. To waste time; trifle. dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

fangles present,singular,third-person fangling participle,present fangled participle,past fangled past fangles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
newfangle newfangled fingle-fangle

词源

词源 1
From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.
词源 2
Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.
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