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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Foist (0.00809 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Foist.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: foist
foist
v 1: to force onto another;
“He foisted his work on me”
2: insert surreptitiously or without warrant
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Foist
Foist
\Foist\ (foist), n. [OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis
cudgel. Cf. 1st
Fust.]
A light and fast-sailing ship. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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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.
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Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in
abuses and corruption. --R. Carew.
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When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a
supposititious foisting of some words in. --South.
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Foist
\Foist\, n.
1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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