Citations:newfangled

English citations of newfangled

• 14th century, Geoffery Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:

  The Squire's Tale, lines 618-620:

  So newefangel been they of hire mete,

  And loven novelries of propre kynde,

  no gentillesse of blood ne may hem bynde.

  The Manciple's Tale, lines 193-195:

  Flessh is so newefangel, with meschaunce,

  That we ne konne in nothyng han plesaunce

  That sowneth into vertu any while.

• c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 201, column 2, lines 143–147:

  […] I will bee more iealous of thee, then a Barbary cocke-pidgeon ouer his hen, more clamorous then a Parrat againſt raine, more new-fangled then an ape, more giddy in my deſires, then a monkey: […]

• 1775, John Ash, The new and complete dictionary of the English language:

  Newfang'led (adj. from new, and fangle) Formed with a foolish affectation of novelty.