Word Meanings - FANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

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• INNOVATION
  A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses. (more info) 1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc. Dryden. 2. A change effected by innovating; a change in
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• SOMETHING
  , adv. In some degree; somewhat; to some exrent; at some distance. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson.
• FASHIONABLE
  1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. 2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy;
• ORNAMENTER
  One who ornaments; a decorator.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• INNOVATIONIST
  One who favors innovation.
• FASHIONLESS
  Having no fashion.
• REFASHIONMENT
  The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. Leigh Hunt.
• FASHION
  orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
• OLD-FASHIONED
  Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.
• INFASHIONABLE
  Unfashionable. Beau. & Fl.