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Provided by the compucert fainaigue \fuh-NEYG\, verb:
1. To shirk; evade work or responsibility.
2. To renege at cards.
Fainaigue stems from British dialect, but its exact origins are unclear. Whether or not it has a relationship to finagle is a source of debate.
clout
- Clout is being famous and having influence
History
- Napoleon Bonaparte: was crowned emperor of France at Notre Dame (1804)
- Monroe Doctrine: was articulated by President James Monroe; it told Europe to stay out of the Americas (1823)
- EPA: Richard Nixon established a federal agency to set and enforce national pollution-control standards (1970)
- scientific experimentation: Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago (1942); Louis Paul Cailletet liquified oxygen (1877)
- artificial heart: Barney Clark was the recipient of the first such transplant, a Jarvik-7; he lived for 112 days (1982)
- Benazir Bhutto: was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head a modern Muslim nation (1988)
Birthdays
- George Seurat 1859
- Charles Ringling 1862
- S. Joseph Begun 1905
- Ray Walston 1914
- Adolph Greene 1915
Leo Gordon 1922- Maria Callas 1923
- Alexander M. Haig 1924
- Julie Harris 1925
- Edwin Meese III 1931
- Cathy Lee Crosby 1948
- John Wesley Ryles 1950
- Keith Szarabajka 1952
- Dan Butler 1954
- Stone Phillips 1954
- Dennis Christopher 1955
Steven Bauer 1956- Sydney Youngblood 1960
- Rick Savage (Def Leppard) 1960
- Lucy Liu 1968
- Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) 1968
- Jimi Haha (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) 1968
- Anthony "Treach" Criss (Naughty By Nature) 1970
- Monica Seles 1973
- Nelly Furtado 1978
- Britney Spears 1981
