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  • adjective Alternative spelling of newfangled.

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  • is old-fangled
    term goes back to 1681 and the 1600's
    https://books.google.ca/books?id=zS3nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA8&dq=fangled
    "... Nor did his theological abilities more advantage the cause of Religion abroad, than at home, they keeping the new-fangled Clergy aloof, and at a distance, as not daring to infuse into so solid a judgment their upstart and erroneous fancies, ..."


    also found newfangled examples from the 1500's.

    June 12, 2016