What's the difference between fangle and gewgaw?

Fangle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
  • (v. t.) To fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There’s nothing new-fangled at the Stockyards; clientele is fridge-size men and Barbie-haired women saying “cute jacket” to each other.
  • (2) Virtual currencies aren't just a new-fangled sort of Monopoly money.
  • (3) He gets strapped to a table with a new-fangled laser beam pointed at his private parts: the best Bond-in-peril scene and one that is not easily escapable – our man's family jewels remain intact only thanks to the villain's inexplicable reluctance to deliver the coup de grace.
  • (4) But Coates had convinced her boss to check out a couple of these new-fangled nouvelle vague films, 'Chabrol and that sort of thing'.
  • (5) Loaded was unsophisticated, but it acknowledged that men could enjoy a contradictory array of pursuits, from outdoor sports to indoor pub games, new-fangled technology like the internet to the traditional male love of football, war and aggression.
  • (6) Back to the 1950s, when 18-year-olds got their heads down and scribbled furiously for three hours on the causes of the English civil war or character development in Pride and Prejudice, without any new-fangled nonsense of course assessment, projects, modules and media studies, while the streets stayed free of drugs, children respected their elders, and Winston Churchill resided in Downing Street.
  • (7) Victorian novels are replete with characters – particularly women characters – who exhibit what we might recognise now as some of the symptoms of anxiety disorders, from fainting to hysteria: manifestations of inner turmoil that would, in real life, have had the phrenologists running to examine their heads, and the hydropathists rushing to welcome them to their new-fangled spas (cold-water remedies were particularly popular when it came to treating what our ancestors regarded as a form of madness).
  • (8) Crops were swamped in their fields and the "new-fangled" tractors proved useless in the mud.
  • (9) I venture that the people, many of them women, who believe such things are unlikely to be swayed by new-fangled notions of equality.
  • (10) The Guardian's Tax Gap series this year established that a major motivation for metamorphosing old-fashioned mortgages into new-fangled securities was the desire to get money offshore.
  • (11) These new-fangled gizmos will be chuntering into life in football club offices all over the UK today.
  • (12) Last week it was suggested that in order to bring libraries into the modern era , visitors should be cossetted with new-fangled indulgences such as heating, toilets, WiFi and coffee machines.
  • (13) So one of her new-fangled “extreme disruption orders” will sort him out.
  • (14) It is always gobsmacking to hear a Tory use the phrase “class war” as if it were a bad thing – a nasty, old-fangled activity that has nothing to do with them, m’lud.

Gewgaw


Definition:

  • (n.) A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
  • (a.) Showy; unreal; pretentious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now, with the initial euphoria subsided, the time has come to see just how playable these new gewgaws actually are.
  • (2) Luckily, George Lucas had the foresight to license his creation to toy companies, so children could harass their parents to buy them officially branded gewgaws.
  • (3) Consumers who still “aspire” to own something by the brand will theoretically then spend less money on some proportionately even more overpriced gewgaw such as a purse or keyring.