Finagle (verb)
fin-ay-gl
to get or achieve something by guile, trickery, or manipulation.
Finagle is an Americanism that was first recorded in 1925–30 and comes from a variant of fainaigue, which means “to shirk” or “to break a rule when playing cards.”
Example sentences
“With his charming smile and persuasive words, he was able to finagle tickets for the show”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
