FINAGLE

wangle, finagle, manage

(verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

(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)

Anagrams

• Lai-feng, Laifeng, faeling, fealing, fleaing, leafing

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

19 June 2025

ROOTS

(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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