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Newfangled

//ˌnuˈfæŋ.ɡəld// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement. derogatory, disapproving, humorous, not-comparable, usually

    "newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little"

  2. 2
    Fond of novelty. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new wordnet

Etymology

From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).

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