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Finagle

Definition: Finagle

Finagle

Verb

1. Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Finagle

Synonyms: manage (v), wangle (v). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Finagle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  bagel finagle

31

  finagle

15

  bagle finagle

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Finagle

Language Translations for "finagle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), çalltis (endeavor, endeavour, fare, rub along, shift), çallëstis (endeavor, endeavour, fare). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

придобивам с измама, измъквам (disentangle, drag out, drag up, extract, extricate, ferret out, fish out, get away, mulct, pry, rip out, rout up, rummage out, shake down, slip away, tap, wheedle, worm). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podvádìt (betray, deceive, double cross, juggle, mock, sharp, trick). (various references)

   

German

  

mogeln (cheat, to cheat, to finagle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απατώ επιτήδεια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csal (cheat, defraud, jockey, to cheat, to finagle, to nap, to renege, to sham, to sharp, to swindle, to trick). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inaglefay

   

Russian 

  

надувать (bamboozle, chisel, codfish, cozen, distend, fob, inflate, jockey, queer, stiffed, stiffs, swell). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izdejstvovati (obtain, put across, spring, swing). (various references)

   

Thai

  

โกง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, trick, wheedle), hile yapmak (cheat, chicane, clip, cog, gerrymander, load the dice, manipulate, play a trick, practice a deceit, practise a deceit, renege, rig, rook, sharp, swindle), hile ile elde etmek (get by deceit, obtain by fraud), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, trick, two time, victimize). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Finagle

Derivations

Words beginning with "finagle": finagled, finagler, finaglers, finagles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Finagle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fanagel, fanaggle, fanagle, fanangle, Feagley, fenagle, fiangle, finage, finalle, finangle, fingle, finnagle, Finnoula, fnagle, fonage. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Finagle"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "finagle" (pronounced funā"gul)
4-ā" g u lbagel.
3-g u lalgal, angle, antifungal, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, conjugal, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, legal, madrigal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Finagle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: leafing.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n"

-1 letter: finale, flange, genial, linage.

-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, elain, elfin, fagin, feign, final, fling, ganef, glean, ingle, liane, liang, ligan, linga.

-3 letters: agin, alef, alif, anil, egal, elan, fail, fain, fane, fang, feal, fila, file, fine, flag, flan, flea, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gien, glen, glia, ilea, lain.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: fanglike, finagled, finagler, finagles.

 

+2 letters: angelfish, befalling, befleaing, deflating, defleaing, enflaming, faltering, fellating, fenagling, finaglers, flagellin, flambeing, frangible, refalling, reflating.

 

+3 letters: anglerfish, beflagging, defaulting, defilading, enfilading, fingernail, flagellins, flamingoes, flanneling, flattening, flattering, grainfield, ladyfinger, leafleting, lifesaving, meaningful, refloating.

 

+4 letters: affectingly, angelfishes, centrifugal, cliffhanger, deadlifting, deafeningly, defalcating, defoliating, dragonflies, exfoliating, facelifting, falteringly, farewelling, farthingale, feudalizing, filagreeing, fingernails, fireballing, firewalling, flagrancies, flannelling, freelancing, freeloading, gainfulness, grainfields, infrangible, ladyfingers, leafletting, lifesavings, refrangible, reinflating, unfaltering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Finagle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6E 61 67 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01100111 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#103 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0061 0067 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40758067737871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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