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| foist [ foyst ] (past and past participle foist·ed, present participle foist·ing, 3rd person present singular foists) |
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1. impose something on somebody: to force somebody to accept something undesirable
 always foists the dirty jobs on me
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2. give somebody something inferior: to give somebody something inferior on the pretense that it is genuine, valuable, or desirable
tried to foist it off on us as an antique
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3. insert something surreptitiously: to introduce or insert something surreptitiously
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| [Mid-16th century. Probably < Dutch dialect vuisten "hold in your hand" (as when hiding dice) < Middle Dutch vuist "fist"] |
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