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fangle

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/
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/ˈfæŋ.ɡəl/ · [ˈfæŋ.ɡl̩] · /ˈfeɪ̯ŋ.ɡəl/ · [ˈfeɪ̯ŋ.ɡl̩] · /ˈfɛ̃ŋ.ɡəl/ · [ˈfɛ̃ŋ.ɡl̩]

Definition of fangle

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (dialectal, obsolete)To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
    “[…]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,[…]”
    “Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.””
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verb

  1. (dialectal, obsolete)To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
    “[…]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,[…]”
    “Jonathan Swift (1726), Gulliver's Travels, 1st edition: “But I have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new-fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch, as I remember upon each return to my own country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new.””
  2. (dialectal, obsolete)To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete)To waste time; trifle.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
  2. Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
  3. A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  4. A conceit; whim.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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.

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