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Newfangle

ˌnuˈfæŋgəl
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Newfangle
    Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. "So newfangel be they of their meat."
  2. Newfangle
    To change by introducing novelties.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. newfangle
    Disposed to take up new things; catching at novelty; fond of change; inconstant: with reference to persons (or animals).
  2. (n) newfangle
    A new or novel fashion; a novelty.
  3. newfangle
    To change by introducing novelties.
Quotations
They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
Plato
Idioms

Newfangled - People who don't like new methods, technologies, etc, describe them as newfangled, which means new but not as good or nice as the old ones.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary New, + fangle,

Usage in the news

MPs out of sync with this newfangled e-thingy. nzherald.co.nz

Newfangled Nest thermostat is hot. usatoday.com

Newfangled American whiskeys go beyond rye, bourbon. sfgate.com

What's So New in a Newfangled Science. nytimes.com

Newfangled 'ThrU Turn' opens Sunday in Kearns. sltrib.com

The state's second newfangled "ThrU Turn" intersection is scheduled to begin operation on Sunday in Kearns at the intersection of 5400 South and 4015 West. sltrib.com

Oddly at Peppy 's, a restaurant noted for its northern Italian cuisine, the chef offers a newfangled Napoleon. miaminewtimes.com

It wasn't just the line where he acted as if student loans were some sort of newfangled gollywizz that President Obama was silly to be concerned about. tnr.com

The newfangled parking fee meter thing. post-gazette.com

The good news is that the newfangled buttermilk available at most grocers isn't all that bad. crescent-news.com

MPs out of sync with this newfangled e- thingy . nzherald.co.nz

In the coming days, the Oklahoma State Chamber will begin publicizing its newfangled judicial rating scorecard for state Supreme Court justices who are up for retention. tulsaworld.com

This newfangled winning thing has become quite fun for members of the Kent State football program. recordpub.com

As newfangled barbed wire became a staple of the American West, Native Americans took to referring to it as the Devil's Rope. beefmagazine.com

MPs out of sync with this newfangled e-thingy. nzherald.co.nz

Usage in literature

She considered that a newfangled way of making a match of it. "Alexander's Bridge and The Barrel Organ" by Willa Cather and Alfred Noyes

You ain't afeard o' those newfangled things! "Round the Red Lamp" by Arthur Conan Doyle

Him and his newfangled ways are wuth that! "Son Philip" by George Manville Fenn

Some people shake their heads over what they call newfangled notions. "Held Fast For England" by G. A. Henty

Why, I used a whole 25 pound flour sack to make it 'cause I don't lak none of dese newfangled little pockets. "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Work Projects Administration

Rhythm will be teaching them newfangled notions. "Winning His Way" by Charles Carleton Coffin

Frederic favors it; but daddy doesn't approve of newfangled contrivances. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866" by Various

But the miners were bitterly opposed to anything "newfangled," and the owners were careless. "That Lass O' Lowrie's" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

They, of course, introduced all their newfangled ideas about games and pastimes, and compelled us to submit. "Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches" by David Drummond Bone

Sure as God made big fish to eat the little fellows, Peter Moore's up to some newfangled deviltry, or I'm a lobster! "Peter the Brazen" by George F. Worts