Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fancy or fantastic trinket or ornament.

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Examples

  • Instead, to save cash, they're pushing moviegoers to on-line sites and smart phone (ph) apps like fandangle, movie phone, movietickets. com, and flickster.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009 2009

  • Gmail is free, and you can fandangle other ways to get a professional email without spending a dime!

    Is Your Email Address Losing You Clients? 2009

  • Ask her for bread these days and she gives you a Cluny-lace fandangle.

    Tish 1916

  • I boun 'she won't neber stick her nose in dem new-fandangle chu'ches no more.

    The Wit of Women Fourth Edition Kate Sanborn 1878

  • It is the question which will have crossed the minds of Gianluigi Buffon, Kaka, perhaps David Villa, in these crazy past four months and the answer most people might give will include apartments, Ferraris and all the other trappings which come with the whole Arab ownership fandangle.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • They had (Namibia's only?) "children under 13 years old stay free" policy, and despite their clearly stated rule of "absolutely no more than 2 adults and 2 children per safari tent", we were able to fandangle accommodations without having to lie about our family size.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • It is the only one and perishable,” and went on to say that we should not try to compute some fandangle mathematical equation and strategize our vote to figure out that if we vote who we believe in we might get this other thing that we do not want.

    Proceeding Onward in the Face of a Dark Political Climate 2008

  • It is the only one and perishable,” and went on to say that we should not try to compute some fandangle mathematical equation and strategize our vote to figure out that if we vote who we believe in we might get this other thing that we do not want.

    Proceeding Onward in the Face of a Dark Political Climate 2008

  • Any online company, with some fandangle new idea they pass onto jane and john doe, proclaiming they’ll save you money and time … it’s just another way for someone else to make money.

    Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine 2006

  • It is the only one and perishable,” and went on to say that we should not try to compute some fandangle mathematical equation and strategize our vote to figure out that if we vote who we believe in we might get this other thing that we do not want.

    Printing: Proceeding Onward in the Face of a Dark Political Climate 2008

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  • Webster: an elaborate but useless ornament

    Also a skateboarding move and a band (see wiki).

    July 7, 2007

  • Ludmila would scorn a lone bangle,

    Preferring her bracelets to jangle,

    And thinks it right cheering

    That each dangling earring

    Should serve as a tinkling fandangle.

    February 18, 2018