Past tense of fenagle; successfully obtained or achieved something through cunning or deceptive methods.
Past tense form of 'fenagle,' adding the regular '-ed' ending. The base word's origin remains uncertain but likely related to Irish or American slang origins.
When someone's 'fenagled' their way into something, they've outmaneuvered the system—it's such a satisfying word because it captures that creative, sneaky problem-solving that's neither quite honest nor quite criminal.
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