newfangly

English

Adjective

newfangly (comparative more newfangly, superlative most newfangly)

1. (obsolete or humorous) Newfangled.
   • [1529, Thomas More], 2020, A Dialogue of Sir Thomas More, Knight (Dialogue Concerning Heresies), Gerard B. Wegemer, Stephen W. Smith (editors), The Essential Works of Thomas More, Yale University Press, page 647,

     He had also set a priest of his, and a secular servant of his besides, to buy many of the same suit, and double and treble of one sort, which were by them uttered to divers young scholars such as they found properly witted, featly learned, and newfangly minded, and thus labored to corrupt the realm.

   • 2000 April 24, Walt Brand, “sell-out of Focus 2000?”, in alt.autos.ford.focus‎^[1] (Usenet):

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

   • 2002 August 29, scratch my ass to reply, “roff, claves, and aa”, in rec.outdoors.fishing.fly‎^[2] (Usenet):

     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,