Etymology of "new fangled":
c.1470, "addicted to novelty," lit. "ready to grasp at all new things," from adj. newefangel "inclined to take" (c.1386), from new + -fangel, from root of O.E. fon "to capture" (see fang). Sense of "lately come into fashion" first recorded 1533.
FOURTEEN SEVENTY, you guys. That is an old-ass word. (Old-fangled, if you will.) Seriously though, had humans as a species even evolved the ability to speak in 1470? Jeez.
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