newfangled
late 15c., "addicted to novelty," lit. "ready to grasp at all new things,"from adj. newefangel "inclined to take" (late 14c.), from new + -fangel, from root of O.E. fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "latelycome into fashion" first recorded 1530s.
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