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▪ I. fangle, n.1|ˈfæŋg(ə)l|
Also 6 fangel, 7 south. dial. vangle.
[This and fangle v.2 app. arose from a mistaken analysis of newfangled, later form of newfangle ‘eager for novelty’. As newfangled was said both of persons and of their actions or productions, it came to be diversely interpreted to mean either ‘characterized by new fashions or crotchets’ or ‘newly fashioned or fabricated’.]
1. new fangle: a new fashion or crotchet; a novelty, new invention. (Always in contemptuous sense.) Now rare.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. iv. 6 Full growen age, which is not wonte easily to swerue into newe fangles. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 116 A Pedlers packe of new fangles. 1670Maynwaring Physician's Repos. 122 That Physician..departs from the primitive Practice, for a new fangle and fashion of Prescribing. 1869Trollope He knew lxxxix. (1878) 494 She would still scorn the new fangles of the world around her. 1881Grant White Words & Uses (ed. 3) 334 New fashions and fangles of dress, of manners, and of speech.
†2. A fantastic, foppish, or silly contrivance; a piece of finery; foppery, fuss. Obs.
1583Greene Mamillia i. Wks. 1881 II. 19 There was no Feather, no fangle, Gem, nor Jewell..left behinde. c1600Time's Alteration in Chambers Pop. Lit. I. 247 French fashions then were scorned, Fond fangles then none knew. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 315 If God loathe the best of an Idolaters prayer, much more the conceited fangle of his prayer. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ix. 230 What fangle now, thy thronged guests to winne. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Fannatio, Fangles or vangles properly the baubles or playthings of children that are proud to be new fangled.
▪ II. † ˈfangle, n.2 Obs. rare.
[? cf. Ger. (dial.) fankel spark; also, a sort of demon.]
? A spark.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch. Hen. IV, clxii, [Glendower] fraught wth some Rudiments of Art And strooke with fangle of his Countriman, The boasted Merlin. Ibid. cclviii, There may we find wth out the fangle which Fires the dry touch of Constitution.
▪ III. ˈfangle, n.3 Anglo-Irish.
[? a. Ir. fainneall ‘a handful of straw for thatching’ (O'Reilly).]
(See quot.)
1863Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 438 The parties returning home, probably by the light of fangles. Ibid., note, Fangles..were long irregular cones of straw, tied at short intervals with twigs or slight straw bands. Being set on fire..they burned slowly, and were very useful in dark nights.
▪ IV. † ˈfangle, v.1 Obs. rare—1.
In 5 fangel.
[? cf. Ger. dial. fankeln to trifle.]
intr. ? To trifle.
a1400Tutivillus 14 in Rel. Ant. I. 257 For his love that ȝou der boȝth Hold ȝou stil and fangel noȝth.
▪ V. ˈfangle, v.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[See fangle n.1]
trans. Contemptuously used for: To fashion, fabricate; to trick out. Also, to new fangle: to dress up anew.
1615J. Taylor (Water-P.) Siege Jerusalem Wks. (1630) 10/2 Such gibrish, gibble-gabble, all did fangle [at Babel]. 1641Milton Prel. Episc. (1851) 90 Not hereby to..new fangle the Scripture. 1755Carte Hist. Eng. IV. 136 Such was their zeal for a new religion of their own fangling. 1762Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 240 If I give a charm 'Tis so metamorphos'd by your fiddling and fangling. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., 'Er bonnit wuz fangled all o'er ooth ribbints. |