Foist

[foist]

Did your parents foist your baby sister on you when they went out? It means they forced her on you. Anything a person or object or idea can be foisted if it's done by force upon an unwilling party.

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A light and fast-sailing ship.

Verb
insert surreptitiously or without warrant

Verb
to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me"

n.
A light and fast-sailing ship.

v. t.
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.

n.
A foister; a sharper.

n.
A trick or fraud; a swindle.

Foist

Foist (foist), n. [OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis cudgel. Cf. 1st Fust.] A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Foist

Foist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Foisting.] [Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.] 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.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or fois? in abuses corruption.
When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in.

Foist

Foist, n. 1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A light and fast-sailing ship.

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.

A foister; a sharper.

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Usage Examples

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.