newfangly

comparative more newfangly · superlative most newfangly

1. humorousobsoleteNewfangled.

   Sounds like one o' them newfangly things they come up with since '87 …

   2000 April 24, Walt Brand, “Sell-out of Focus 2000?”, in alt.autos.ford.focus (Usenet)

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   He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded.

   1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book III, page 213, column 2

   You whippersnappers are sumpin else, what with yer newfangly com-poo-ters and compyserve accounts … why, when I was a boy, we had to walk 10 miles in the snow to post to ROFF, and that was in the summer, […]

   2002 August 29, Scratch my ass to reply, “Roff, Claves, and Aa”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly (Usenet)