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单词 newfangled
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newfangledadj.

Brit. /ˌnjuːˈfaŋɡld/, /ˈnjuːˌfaŋɡld/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)uˈˌfæŋɡ(ə)ld/
Forms: Middle English–1500s newefangled, 1500s newfanglyd, 1500s newfangulyd, 1500s newphangled, 1500s– newfangled; also Scottish 1900s– newfangelt, 1900s– newfanglet, 1900s– nyowfangl'd.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: newfangle adj., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < newfangle adj. + -ed suffix1. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (niūfæ·ŋg'ld) /njuːˈfæŋɡ(ə)ld/.
Now frequently depreciative (sometimes humorously).
1.
a. Very (esp. excessively or immoderately) fond of novelty or new things; keen to take up new fashions or ideas; easily carried away by whatever is new. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > fond of novelty or new things
newfangle?a1300
newfangledc1496
neophiliac1942
c1496 Sermo pro Episcopo Puerorum (de Worde) sig. biij Boyes of fyfty yere of age are as newe fangled as ony yonge men be.
1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes ii. 12 He was man new fanglyd and ambicious.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) iii. 132 I am not new fangled, nor neuer wyll be.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K7 Diuers new phangled felows sprong vp of late, as the Brownists.
1609 W. Holbrooke No Gaine to this 39 Hereby, is our Land and nation iustly taxed of this sin, by being said to be the New-fangledest nation vnder the heauens.
a1659 R. Brownrig 65 Serm. (1674) I. xi. 155 Imputations..cast upon these new fangled Christians.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 103 Make these new-fangled prisoners stand upright.
1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 163 How much dependence is to be placed on these new-fangled statesmen?
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xvi. 142 When his time came to be made a bishop, he was not sufficiently new-fangled; and so he got passed by.
1882 Cent. Mag. May 98/2 It abounded in conventional satire of the new-fangled reformers whom the poet was soon to join.
1926 D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vi. 138 All these new-fangled doctors went out of their way to invent subconsciousness and kleptomania, and complexes and other fancy descriptions to explain away when people had done naughty things.
b. With of or with. Now rare (English regional in later use).
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1670 A. Marvell Let. 29 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 119 All the French curiositys & trinkets of which our people are so new fangled.
1785 in A. C. Bower Diaries & Corr. (1903) 23 So excessively am I new-fangled with my present.
1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 421 Bairns diz git new-fangled wi' owt' at's fresh.
2. Newly or recently invented or existent, novel; gratuitously or objectionably modern or different from what one is used to.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > new, novel, or not previously known
newOE
fresha1382
unhearda1382
new-founda1425
raw1448
newfanglec1450
newfangled?1531
new-fashioned1574
novile1586
modern1590
newelty1590
unheard1592
novellous1601
new-discovered1609
novelizing1625
nouvelle1650
new-type1887
edgy1976
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye i. sig. d Let vs se and examine more of this newfangled philosophye.
1579 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 68 Me thinkes I see the bite ye lipp, At queinte newfanglid vanities.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 255 Gorgeous apparell, and new fangled fashions.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xliii. 146 Other like new-fangled and vicious introductions [aultres pareilles introductions].
1648 T. Gataker Mysterious Cloudes 2 Endeavouring to draw Disciples after them, by broaching of new-fangled fancies.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 43 The new titles..of bodyed and congregated, associated or independented and new-fangled Churches.
1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings Pref. 1 New-fangled Proportions which give pain to the sight.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xl. 496 A new-fangled and mystical state-oratory.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 310 Take then your new-fangled Anglo-gallicism trait.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 440 Those new-fangled sources of income which arose out of the new-fangled feudal tenures.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 217 ‘I gather that he's in the stream.’ The stream! What stream? What was this new-fangled way of talking?
1969 D. Acheson Present at Creation (1970) ii. 16 Together we stifled under the full blast of the summer sun..unabated by any such newfangled contrivance as air conditioning.
1994 S. P. Somtow Jasmine Nights (1995) xliii. 317 If this is another of your well-meaning fiascos, I'm simply going to have to call a halt to all this newfangled experimental education.

Derivatives

newˈfangledism n. rare fondness for novelty.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > novelty or unusual character of something > fondness for novelty
newfangledism1883
neophilia1899
neophily1932
1883 J. Martine Reminisc. Royal Burgh Haddington 42 She had a great dislike to ‘newfangledism’.
newˈfangledly adv. rare
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1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) New-fangledly, in a new-fangled manner.
?1901 T. Common tr. F. Nietzsche Thus spake Zarathustra liv How confidently did my dream contemplate this finite world, not new-fangledly, not old-fangledly, not timidly, not entreatingly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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