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finagle
English
Etymology
Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix +? -le (“frequentative”); compare haggle.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /f??ne?.??l/
- Rhymes: -e???l
Verb
finagle (third-person singular simple present finagles, present participle finagling, simple past and past participle finagled)
- (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts.
- 2007, Ashley Ezell, Harvest of Hearts, Ashley Ezell (?ISBN), page 124:
- She finagled her way around so that her arms were now clasped around his neck. So as not to cause a scene, Jason began to sway with her as if they had intended to dance. “Where's your counterpart tonight, Mandy?” he asked with a sly smile. “I thought you and Carl Maycomb were seeing each other.” Mandy answered with a “humph,” indicating she didn't want to talk about Carl.
- 2012, Jonathan Logan Donovan, Husk: A Tale of Human Hunger, AuthorHouse (?ISBN)
- If she encountered an obstacle she could not navigate past, she would spend hours backtracking to find a path she and her cart could navigate. When they were invariably overturned along the way, she shouldered her way under the bars and pushed herself up, flipping it over and depositing herself in the cart. She finagled her way out, slowly and methodically replaced the spilled contents back in and went about her way She stood outside a hair salon for two days...
- 2017, Allie Pleiter, Myra Johnson, Annie Hemby, Harlequin Love Inspired September 2017-Box Set 2 of 2: The Texas Rancher's New Family\Her Hill Country Cowboy\Healing His Widowed Heart, Harlequin (?ISBN):
- The kitten followed Sophie everywhere and had finagled her way into free run of the house. Cooper didn't much care for the way the little beast acted as if she already owned the place. He certainly didn't care for the way she leaped up onto his desk, and sat on his laptop, as if to say, “Let's see how you get out of this one, cowboy.”
- 2007, Ashley Ezell, Harvest of Hearts, Ashley Ezell (?ISBN), page 124:
- (transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.
- 2017, Judith Arnold, Kick The Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery, Judith Arnold (?ISBN):
- Down the third-floor hallway, she noticed that the police tape had been removed from George Vandercloop's door. Did that mean Sunrise Village was now free to rent it to a new tenant? She tried the door knob and found it locked. Not that she expected she'd find anything more in the apartment than she'd seen the one time she'd finagled her way inside. Murder by chloroform didn't leave much evidence behind. She U-turned, made her way to the door with “Helen Dorgan” printed on [it] ...
- 2017, Judith Arnold, Kick The Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery, Judith Arnold (?ISBN):
- (transitive, intransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
Alternative forms
- finangle
Derived terms
- finagler
Translations
See also
- wangle
References
- finagle, The Word Detective, February 12th, 2008
- finagle at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Lai-feng, Laifeng, faeling, fealing, fleaing, leafing
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wangle
English
Etymology
Blend of wag +? dangle, first attested 1810-1820.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?wæ?.??l/
- Rhymes: -æ???l
Verb
wangle (third-person singular simple present wangles, present participle wangling, simple past and past participle wangled)
- (transitive) To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods.
- "if a country such as China decided to wangle various concessions out of the US government" [1]
- (transitive) To falsify, as records.
- (intransitive) To achieve through contrivance or cajolery.
- "manages to wangle his way into the investigation team" [2]
Derived terms
- wangler
Translations
Noun
wangle (plural wangles)
- The act of wangling
See also
- finagle
- wrangle
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