newfanglement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish. uncountable
    — So it is in traffic of all sorts, which this world lives upon; it's all newfanglement, and that's the fashion of the times.
  2. Something that is newfangled. countable
    — The harvesting machine — drawn by a big caterpillar or four-wheel-drive tractor — is a costly and colossal newfanglement which unearths two rows of potatoes simultaneously, shakes out the soil, separates the rocks from the potatoes which are delivered by moving belt to the accompanying truck that hauls the potatoes to the potato barn where they are mechanically unloaded.

词形变化

newfanglements plural

词源

From newfangled + -ment.
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