fangle — Английский словарь

Глагол

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

   Употребление

   • dialectal
   • вышедшее из употребления

   Примеры

   Другие примеры (2)

   […]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.

   Употребление

   • dialectal
   • вышедшее из употребления

3. To waste time; trifle.

   Употребление

   • dialectal
   • вышедшее из употребления

Существительное

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

   Употребление

   • вышедшее из употребления

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

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

4. A conceit; whim.