ETYMOLOGY
from fandangs (fanciful adornments in personal attire, trinkets (Eng. dial.))
EXAMPLE
“…who though a little proud and finical, to be sure he will yaw a parcel of nonsense about jukes and lords, and them sort of fandangus trumpery, and puts a parcel of gibberish whims into the head of all the women he falls in with…”
From: The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors
– Agnes Maria Bennett, 1797
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