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Definition of Newfangled
1. Adjective. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new. "She buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them"
Definition of Newfangled
1. a. Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty.
Definition of Newfangled
1. Adjective. (usually derogatory or humorous) Contemptibly modern, unfamiliar, or different. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Newfangled
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newfangled
Literary usage of Newfangled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... was taken from him in the second part of the same, and placed in that newfangled
kind of counsellors, whose power was such, and so expressed by it, ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"Hl lt ' ,> rr ' (T1 , 1 Ч Well strung, strong, vigorous; relating to the nerves;
having weak or diseased nerves. newfangled, nu-fang'gld. a. ..."
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