NEW-FANGLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does new-fangled mean? 

• NEW-FANGLED (adjective)
  The adjective NEW-FANGLED has 1 sense:

1. (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new

  Familiarity information: NEW-FANGLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW-FANGLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new

Synonyms:

new-fangled; newfangled

Context example:

she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them

Similar:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

 Context examples 

We are getting too fine for our work with these new-fangled epaulettes and quarter-deck trimmings.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not tell me where the place of work was situated, but he had a vague idea that it was some kind of a "new-fangled ware'us"; and with this slender clue I had to start for Poplar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

One of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new "cold storage" building; and as this suited the condition of a "new-fangled ware'us," I at once drove to it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)