How to pronounce finagle
American English pronunciation
fih-NAY-gul
- IPA
- /fɪˈneɪɡəl/
- Syllables
- fih · NAY · gul (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What finagle means
To get something by being clever and a little sneaky
In a sentence: Somehow she finagled a front-row seat at the show.
Where it comes from: It was American slang in the 1920s, and nobody is sure where it came from.
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