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fangled

fangled is the simple past and past participle of fangle.

Meaning of fangle

Verb

fangle (third-person singular simple present fangles, present participle fangling, simple past and past participle fangled)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
    • […]not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid, but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees, and to gather up wherever we find the remaining sparks of original truth,[…]1641, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To trim showily; entangle; hang about.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete) To waste time; trifle.

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Words formed from fangled

Phrases with fangled

Questions about fangled

What is fangled the simple past and past participle of?
Fangled is the simple past and past participle of fangle.

Words near fangled in the dictionary

  1. fangirls
  2. fangirly
  3. fangish
  4. fangite
  5. fangle
  6. fangled
  7. fangles
  8. fangless
  9. fanglet
  10. fanglets
  11. fanglike

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