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newfanglement

noun

Etymology

From newfangled + -ment.

Definitions

  1. The quality of being newfangled

    The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish.

    • So it is in traffic of all sorts, which this world lives upon; it's all newfanglement, and that's the fashion of the times.
    • Fogg's house on savile Row is a steampunk paradise of newfanglement.

  2. Something that is newfangled.

    • Everybody know it but nobody wants hear it 'count hearin' don't make nothin' no better. Some things hearin' 'bout make things worse. Ain't like dyin' is some newfanglement nobody ever heard nothin' 'bout afore.
    • And, alas! there are even strange golfers who are sighing always for newfanglements, feeling that the things they cannot or must not have, are much better than the things they are blessed with.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for newfanglement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA