Etymology Is Fun, Part 127… The question of the day: what the hell is it to fangle something? If something is “newfangled,” can it be oldfangled eventually? Fangle?

Etymology: Middle English, from newefangel, from new + (assumed) Old English -fangol, from Old English fOn (past participle fangen) to take, seize
Date: 14th century

So, then, “to be seized by the new.” Ergo, if I were seized by the desire to get some chicken in me, I would be chickenfangled. I imagine.

(Etymology Is Fun #1: “OK”? What do the O and the K stand for? We say it a million times a day. And it’s not “Old Kinderhook,” either. The best explanation I’ve seen to date is here, as usual.)
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I live approximately1.1 miles from a nuclear waste disposal route. So, that’s how my day’s goin’. What aboutyou?