Definition of "fangle" in English

verb

1. (obsolete or dialectal) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.

   • 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. (obsolete or dialectal) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.

3. (obsolete or dialectal) 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.