finagle
Meaning
- (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
- (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
- (ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
Synonyms
Translations
truander
hurtar
ritselen
etw. stibitzen
compondre-se-lesPronounced as (IPA)
/fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/
Etymology
Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix + -le (“frequentative”), possibly influenced by inveigle; compare haggle.
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