newfangled

• new-fangled, new fangled

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌnjuːˈfæŋ.ɡəɫd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌnuˈfæŋ.ɡəld/

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1. (usually derogatory, disapproving, or humorous) new and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.

   newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little

   • 1942 September 6, “Mussolini Takes Wheel; Tries Out ‘New-Fangled’ Auto Driven by Electricity”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Premier Mussolini operated a “new-fangled automobile” driven by electricity on a trial run yesterday, the German Transocean agency reported in a wireless transmission to the United States recorded by the New York Times.

   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:

     From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.

   • 1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194:

     I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:newfangled.
2. Fond of novelty.

• oldfangled

• newfangle