Obs. [reduplication of FANGLE. Cf. FIDDLE-FADDLE.] A trifle; something whimsical or fantastic. Also attrib.

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a. 1651.  Brome, Covent Garden, I. 13. Hell’s broke loose; this comes of your new fingle-fangle fashion.

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1678.  Butler, Hud., III. iii. 221.

        We agree in nothing, but to wrangle,
About the slightest fingle fangle.

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1710.  Brit. Apollo, III. No. 61. 3/1.

        A Woman … I Love;
A kind of Female Fingle, Fangle.

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  Hence Fingle-fangled ppl. a.

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1651.  Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 11. The upstart fingle fangl’d Paracelsian.

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