finagle

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/    美 /fɪˈneɪ.ɡəl/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect, complicated and/or intensive efforts. transitive
    — finagle a day off work
  2. To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery. transitive
    — finagled his way out of a ticket by pretending to be on the way to a funeral, distraught
  3. To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object) ambitransitive
    — shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.

词形变化

finagles present,singular,third-person finagling participle,present finagled participle,past finagled past finangle alternative phenagle alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
finagler

词源

Americanism from the 1920s, perhaps combining an alteration of fainaigue (“to renege”) with the suffix + -le (“frequentative”), possibly influenced by inveigle; compare haggle.
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