finagle \fi-NEY-guhl\, verb:
- to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- to get or achieve (something) by guile, trickery, or manipulation: to finagle an assignment to the Membership Committee.
- to practice deception or fraud; scheme.
Finagle likely comes from the English dialect term fainaigue meaning "to cheat." It entered English in the 1920s.
literally
literally
- People often confuse this word with figuratively.
-Dude, you figuratively died of embarassment, you illiterate dipshit.
Trivia
What pioneering rock ′n′ roller’s band did young Bob Dylan want to join, according to his 1959 high-school yearbook?
- Little Richard’s. Dylan, whose birth name is Robert Zimmerman, attended Hibbing High School in Hibbing, Minnesota.
- Great Moon Hoax: the first of six articles appeared in The New York Sun, discussing a variety of animal life supposedly discovered on the moon (1835)
- English Channel: was swum for the first time, by Matthew Webb (1875); he died eight years later attempting a swim in the rapids beneath Niagara Falls
- Paris: was liberated by the Allies in World War II (1944)
- Aaliyah: singer/actor died in a plane crash in the Bahamas (2001)
- Allen Pinkerton 1819
- Bret Harte 1836
- Emile Kocher 1841
- Charles Richet 1850
- Sir Hans Adolf Krebs 1900
- Clara Bow 1905
- Ruby Keeler 1909
- Michael Rennie 1909
- Walt Kelly 1913
- Van Johnson 1916
- Frederick Robbins 1916
- Mel Ferrer 1917
- Dan DeFore 1917
- Richard Greene 1918
- Leonard Bernstein 1918
- George C. Wallace 1919
- Monty Hall 1923
- Althea Gibson 1927
- Sean Connery 1930
- Page Johnson 1930
- Regis Philbin 1931
- Tom Skerritt 1933
- Wayne Shorter 1933
- Hugh Hudson 1936
- David Canary 1938
- Marshall Brickman 1941
- Walter Williams (The O'Jays) 1942
- Anthony Heald 1944
- Jacques Demers 1944
- Rollie Fingers 1946
- Anne Archer 1947
- John Savage 1949
- Gene Simmons 1949 - Musician (KISS)
- Henry Paul (Blackhawk) 1949
- Rob Halford 1951 - Singer (Judas Priest)
- Elvis Costello 1954
- Tim Burton 1958
- Ally Walker 1961
- Billy Ray Cyrus 1961
- Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard) 1962
- Morgan Englund 1964
- Blair Underwood 1964
- Joanne Whalley-Kilmer 1964
- Albert Belle 1966
- Terminator X (Public Enemy) 1966
- Robert Horry 1969
- Jo Dee Messina 1969
- Claudia Schiffer 1971
- Kel Mitchell 1978
- Rachel Bilson 1981
- Blake Lively 1986
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