Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy.
- transitive verb To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery.
- transitive verb To insert fraudulently or deceitfully.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A breaking wind without noise: same as
fist , 1. - noun A puffball.
- noun A sly trick; a juggle; an imposition.
- noun A cheat; a sharper.
- noun A cutpurse; a pickpocket. Also
foister . - To smell musty: same as
fust . - Same as
foisty . - To work in by a trick; thrust in wrongfully, surreptitiously, or without warrant; insert or obtrude fraudulently or by imposition; pass or palm off as genuine or worthy: followed by in or into before the thing affected, and by upon before the person: as, to
foist a spurious document upon one. - To falsify or make fraudulent by some insertion; cog, as a die.
- noun A light and fast-sailing ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A light and fast-sailing ship.
- transitive verb To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by
in . - noun obsolete A foister; a sharper.
- noun obsolete A trick or fraud; a swindle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
introduce orinsert surreptitiously or withoutwarrant . - verb transitive To
force another toaccept especially bystealth ordeceit . - verb transitive To
pass off asgenuine orworthy . - noun A
thief orpickpocket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb insert surreptitiously or without warrant
- verb to force onto another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Besides, I'm one of those strange people who prefers live versions of songs over the over produced studio recordings the labels foist upon the artists.
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While it could be interesting, one may hope GoOgle will not foist aka force it upon gmail users.
Google Wave “Is What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I'd love to have someone "foist" something as nice as that on me!
Caron 3eme Homme Marina Geigert 2008
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The 84-year-old leader caused outrage in October 2005 when he used a speech at the FAO to tell donor nations not to "foist" food on Zimbabwe and compared the then British premier Tony Blair to Italy's wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini.
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It is a little unusual, in fact, more than a little unusual that they didn't have the complaint filed and that the police went out there and are now going to kind of foist it upon the DA's office.
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If we can't "foist" religious values on our young why should we be able to foist any kind of "man made" relative belief in the worth of any kind of values?
Drudge Retort skizziks 2009
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Dewar supported the back-to-work bill, saying if the city and the union would not go to arbitration voluntarily Parliament would "foist" it upon them.
Ottawa Sun 2009
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If we can't "foist" religious values on our young why should we be able to foist any kind of "man made" relative belief in the worth of any kind of values?
Drudge Retort 2009
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You would think the miserable little people who foist this politically correct left wing stupidity upon us would considering applying for citizenship elsewhere.
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Everyone from Ickes to retired General Pershing to Eleanor Roosevelt to even his brother Vincent tried to foist friends or relatives on him, many the Army had rejected as physically unfit.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
repsac3 commented on the word foist
Foist - To be fat and moist at the same time.
"George was foist when he got out of the shower."
September 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word foist
Eewwww.
September 7, 2007
cosmican commented on the word foist
Rather than do the task he was assigned, Jim tried to foist it on one of the newer employees.
November 20, 2007