| 释义 | newfangle, a. and n. Now dial.|njuːˈfæŋg(ə)l|
Forms: 4–5 newe-, 4– new-; 4 -fongel, 4–5 -fangel, 4–6 -fangil, (5 -ille, -yl(le, 6 -ill), 6– -fangle.
[ME. newefangel, f. newe- new a. + -fangel, repr. OE. *fangol ‘inclined to take’, from the stem fang- (infin. fón) to take. Cf. MDu. nievingel(heit).]
A. adj.
1. = newfangled 1.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 610 So newefangel been they of hire mete, And louen nouelrie of propre kynde. 1390Gower Conf. II. 273 Every newe love quemeth To him which newefongel is. c140026 Pol. Poems 56 We ben newe fangyl, vnstable in dede. 1470–85Malory Arthur xxi. ii. 841 The moost party..helde with sire mordred, the peple were soo newe fangle. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. vi. 141 The lusty matronis newfangill of sik thyng. 1583Babington Commandm. (1590) 274 He would not haue them new⁓fangle, wanton, and phantasticall in their apparell. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. I, Wks. (1711) 9 The English..with new guises daily resorted hither, and turned new⁓fangle the court. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 36 A Paris edition of new-fangle Sany. a1773Fergusson Wks. (1800) 114 Newfangle grown wi' new got form, You soar aboon your mither worm. 1826D. Anderson Poems 8 (E.D.D.), Nor are they to incomes newfangle, Until acquainted wi' their character.
2. = newfangled 2.
1578in Priv. Prayers (1851) 465 So fond are we Englishmen of strange and foreign things, so greedy of new-fangle novelties. 1614Jackson Creed iii. 179 Neglecting new⁓fangle trickes or flashes of extemporary wit. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14. iii. (1669) 15/2 He..that vainly covets novelties, and listens after every new-fangle opinion. 1720Ramsay Concl. 3 Ye're [a book] newfangle to be seen, In gilded Turkey clad, and clean.
B. n. A new thing or fashion; a novelty.
c1520Treat. Galaunt (1860) 16 So hath the newe fangles our welth obscured. 1581Rich Farew. (1846) 224 Men, that are busied with new fangles at the least once a daie. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xxvii. (1632) 96 The changes, innovations, newfangles, and hurly burlies of his time. 1897J. Wright Sc. Life 75 Like mony new-fangles, ye're brisk, New Year!
Hence newˈfangle v., to make newfangled.
1530Palsgr. 644/1, I newefangyll. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xci, Some glory..in their garments, though new-fangled ill. 1641Milton Prel. Episc. 21 Not hereby to controule, and new fangle the Scripture. 1861Temple Bar II. 539 He will new-fangle all our old-fashioned schemes. |
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