newfangleness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- + fangle + -ness.
Noun[edit]
newfangleness (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of newfangledness.
References[edit]
- “newfangleness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes).
Noun[edit]
newfangleness (uncountable)
- newfangledness; the state of being newfangled
- 1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript[1]:
- To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “newfangleness” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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