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FANGLED

Definition: FANGLED

FANGLED

Adjective

1. New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obs., except with the prefix new.] See Newfangled.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FANGLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1610. (references)

Note: Fangled \Fan"gled\, adjective. New made; hence, gaudy; showy; vainly decorated. [Obsolete, except with the prefix new.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: FANGLED

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Fangled A new-fangled notion is one just started or entertained. (Saxon, fengan, to begin.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FANGLED

English words defined with "FANGLED": Fangleness. (references)
Etymologies containing "FANGLED": Fangleness. (references)

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Usage Frequency: FANGLED

"FANGLED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FANGLED" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FANGLED

Expression using "FANGLED": new fangled. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "FANGLED": new-fangled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FANGLED

Language Translations for "FANGLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

uudenaikainen (fashionable, modern, new-fangled, up-to-date). (various references)

   

French

  

trop moderne (new fangled), nouveau genre (new fangled). (various references)

   

German

  

neumodisch (fashionable, new fangled, newfangled). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νεότευκτοσ (new fangled, newly made), μοντέρνοσ (contemporary, cotemporary, fashionable, modern, modish, new fangled, stylish). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

divatjamúlt (antiquated, demode, demoded, old-fangled, outmoded, played out, to be out of fashion, unfashionable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angledfay

   

Swedish

  

nymodig (modern, new, new fangled, newfangled, new-fangled), gammalmodig (antiquated, antique, dated, dowdy, fusty, obsolete, old fashioned, old-fangled, old-fashioned, out of date, out of fashion, quaint, Square, superannuated). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeni model (new fangled, newfangled), yeni çıkmış (new fangled, newfangled, novel, out). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FANGLED

Derivations

Words ending with "FANGLED": newfangled, oldfangled. (additional references)

Words containing "FANGLED": newfangledness, newfanglednesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FANGLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faigele, fingle, flangle, fnagle, fungle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FANGLED"

Words rhyming with "FANGLED" (pronounced 'Fan"gled'): Bugled, Pungled. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FANGLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: flanged.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-l-n"

-1 letter: angled, dangle, defang, fanged, flange, lagend.

-2 letters: angel, angle, eland, fadge, ganef, glade, gland, glean, laden, naled.

-3 letters: aged, alef, dale, dang, deaf, deal, dean, delf, egad, egal, elan, fade, fane, fang, feal, fend, flag, flan, flea, fled, gaed, gaen, gale, gane, geld, glad, gled, glen, lade, land, lane, lang, lead, leaf, lean.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-g-l-n"
 

+1 letter: fenagled, finagled.

 

+2 letters: deflating, defleaing, gardenful.

 

+3 letters: defaulting, defilading, enfilading, gardenfuls, grainfield, ladyfinger, newfangled, oldfangled.

 

+4 letters: deadlifting, deafeningly, defalcating, defoliating, dragonflies, feudalizing, frankpledge, freeloading, grainfields, ladyfingers.

 

+5 letters: decalcifying, deflagrating, deflagration, federalizing, frankpledges, grandiflorae, lifeguarding.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FANGLED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 4E 47 4C 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    -.    --.    .-..    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01001110 01000111 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 004E 0047 004C 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40354841463938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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