单词 | to new fangle |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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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