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A ricochet word meaning a fanciful trifle. A “new fangle” is a novel contrivance. “New fangled,” etc.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.