FANGLED

Verb

fangled

simple past tense and past participle of fangle

Anagrams

• Gelfand, flanged

Source: Wiktionary


Fan"gled, a.

Definition: New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled. "Our fangled world." Shak.

FANGLE

Fan"gle, n. Etym: [From Fang, v. t.; hence, prop., a taking up a new thing.]

Definition: Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

Fan"gle, v. t.

Definition: To fashion. [Obs.] To control and new fangle the Scripture. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 January 2025

DERMATOGLYPHICS

(noun) the study of the whorls and loops and arches in the fingertips and on the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet; “some criminologists specialize in dermatoglyphics”


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