fangle.
To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
Meaning & usage
To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
To waste time; trifle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.
A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
A conceit; whim.
Where this word comes from
Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.
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