Finagle definition
Finagle a day off from work; finagled a reservation at the popular restaurant.
Shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
Origin of finagle
- Probably from dialectal fainaigue to cheat
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix + -le (“frequentive”); compare haggle.
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