Obs. exc. dial. [See FANGLE sb.1] trans. Contemptuously used for: To fashion, fabricate; to trick out. Also, To new fangle: to dress up anew.
1615. J. Taylor (Water. P), Siege Jerusalem, Wks. (1630), 20/2.
| Such Gibrish, Gibble Gabble, all did iangle [at Babel], | |
| Some laugh, some fret, all prate, all diffring wrangle. |
1641. Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy (1851), 90. Not hereby to control and new fangle the Scripture, God forbid! but to mark how corruption and apostasy crept in by degrees.
1755. Carte, Hist. Eng., IV. 136. It was against the church of England herself, that their next measures were levelled; such was their zeal for a new religion of their own fangling.
1762. Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume, Beauty and Fashion (Percy Society), 240.
| If I give a charm, you surely will spoil it; | |
| When you take it in hand, there’s such murth’ring and mangling, | |
| ’Tis so metamorphos’d by your fiddling and fangling. |
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v. ‘’Er bonnit wuz fangled all o’er ooth ribbints like a pedlar’s basket.’
