newfangled

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of a new kind or fashion, gratuitously new

   Singular they is not a newfangled idea, considering it has been in use for over 700 years.

2. 2
   adj

   New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.

   Newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little.

From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).

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