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Fangle

//ˈfæŋ.ɡəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A prop; a taking up; a new thing. obsolete
  2. 2
    Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
  3. 3
    A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  4. 4
    A conceit; whim.
Verb
  1. 1
    To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create. dialectal, obsolete

    "[…]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]"

  2. 2
    To trim showily; entangle; hang about. dialectal, obsolete
  3. 3
    To waste time; trifle. dialectal, obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from newfangled (adjective) as if new + fangle (noun). See newfangle.

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