fangle
Meanings
Plural: fangles
Verb
- To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
- To waste time; trifle.
Noun
- A prop; a taking up; a new thing.
- Something newly fashioned; a novelty, a new fancy.
- A foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
- A conceit; whim.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English fangelen (verb), from fangel (“inclined to take”, adjective), from Old English *fangol, *fangel (“inclined to take”), from fōn (“to take, seize”). Compare Old English andfangol (“undertaker, contractor”), Old English underfangelnes (“undertaking, hospitality”), Middle English fangen (“to take, seize, catch”), German fangen (“to catch”). More at fang.
Scrabble Score: 10
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Words With Friends Score: 0
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