Fangled vs Fashion - What's the difference?
fangled | fashion |
(fangle)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To waste time; trifle.
(obsolete) A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
A conceit; whim.
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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* John Locke
* H. Spencer
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
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The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
* Bible, Luke ix. 29
* Shakespeare
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
To make, build or construct.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
* 2005 , :
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
* John Locke
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
* Spenser
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
As verbs the difference between fangled and fashion
is that fangled is (fangle) while fashion is to make, build or construct.As a noun fashion is
(countable) a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.fangled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fangle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(fangl)- To control and new fangle the Scripture.
Usage notes
Although obsolete in general English, the verb is still occasionally used in some regions, and is retained in the expression new fangled.Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
Derived erroneously from as if (new) + fangle. See (l).Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*fashion
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
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- the innocent diversions in fashion
- As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
- When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
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- the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
- The fashion of his countenance was altered.
- I do not like the fashion of your garments.
- men of fashion
Derived terms
* fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashionVerb
(en verb)- I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
- a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
- Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
- Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
- (Shakespeare)
