fangle — Kamus bahasa Inggris

Verba

1. To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.

   Penggunaan

   • dialectal
   • tidak dipakai lagi

   Contoh

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   […]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,[…]

   Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.”

2. To trim showily; entangle; hang about.

   Penggunaan

   • dialectal
   • tidak dipakai lagi

3. To waste time; trifle.

   Penggunaan

   • dialectal
   • tidak dipakai lagi

Nomina

1. A prop; a taking up; a new thing.

   Penggunaan

   • tidak dipakai lagi

2. Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.

3. A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

4. A conceit; whim.