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phenagle

phenagle is the alternative form of finagle.

Meaning of finagle

Verb

finagle (third-person singular simple present finagles, present participle finagling, simple past and past participle finagled)

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

Forms of phenagle

third-person singular presentphenagles
present participlephenagling
past participlephenagled
pastphenagled

Questions about phenagle

What is phenagle the alternative form of?
Phenagle is the alternative form of finagle.

Words near phenagle in the dictionary

  1. phenacolepadids
  2. phenacyl
  3. phenacyl bromide
  4. phenacyls
  5. phenadoxone
  6. phenagle
  7. phenagled
  8. phenagles
  9. phenagling
  10. phenaglycodol
  11. phenakism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phenagle (page history and authors); finagle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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