| 单词 | new fangle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnew fangle 1. new fangle: a new fashion or crotchet; a novelty, new invention. (Always in contemptuous sense.) Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze new fangle1548 furor1704 fever1761 rage1780 go1784 the fashion1790 furore1790 fashionablea1800 craze1813 delirament1856 fad1881 fash1895 new thinga1911 flu1943 kick1946 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 Tim. in Paraphr. New Test. iv. 6 Full growen age, which is not wonte easily to swerue into newe fangles. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 44, A Pedlars packe of new fangles. 1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. b, Any new Phangles of these wilder times. 1670 E. Maynwaring Pharmacopœian Physician's Repos. 122 That Physician..departs from the primitive Practice, for a new fangle and fashion of Prescribing. 1869 Trollope He knew he was Right II. lxxxix. 309 She would still scorn the new fangles of the world around her. 1881 R. G. White Words & their Uses (ed. 3) 334 New fashions and fangles of dress, of manners, and of speech. to new fangle trans. Contemptuously used for: To fashion, fabricate; to trick out. Also, to new fangle: to dress up anew. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament > trim or deck out perfurnish1375 enflourish?a1400 varnish14.. perform1420 to pick outc1429 polish?1440 trimc1516 to set out1523 trick?1532 face1542 trick1545 prank1546 tricka1555 bawdefy1562 tickle1567 prink1573 finify1586 deck1587 decore1603 betrima1616 fangle1615 beprank1648 prim1688 to garnish outa1704 decorate1782 to do off1794 dizen1807 tricolatea1825 fal-lal1845 1615 J. Taylor Siege Jerusalem in Wks. (1630) 10/2 Such gibrish, gibble-gabble, all did fangle [at Babel]. 1641 Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 21 Not hereby to..new fangle the Scripture. a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 136 Such was their zeal for a new religion of their own fangling. 1762 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 240 If I give a charm 'Tis so metamorphos'd by your fiddling and fangling. 1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word), 'Er bonnit wuz fangled all o'er ooth ribbints. < as lemmas |
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