Finagle vs Fleece - What's the difference?
finagle | fleece |
To obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods.
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(ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
* (uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
(uncountable) Insulating skin with the wool attached
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen.
(countable) An insulating wooly jacket
(roofing) Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer.
Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.
The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
to con or trick someone out of money
to shear the fleece from an animal (such as a sheep)
As verbs the difference between finagle and fleece
is that finagle is to obtain, arrange, or achieve by indirect and usually deceitful methods while fleece is to con or trick someone out of money.As a noun fleece is
hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal.finagle
English
Verb
(finagl)- ...finagle a day off from work.
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- ...shady stockbrokers who finagle their clients out of fortunes.
Derived terms
* finaglerReferences
finagle, The Word Detective, February 12th, 2008