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Finagle

Posted by Bruce Kahl on June 29, 2003

Anyone?
The best I could find is that it might be from a Newfoundland dialect--"fainaigue" a card playing term as in "You're not allowed to fainaigue the jack of hearts."
Maybe it is a mispronunciation of something?

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