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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: foist (0.00925 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. --R. Carew. [1913 Webster] When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. --South. [1913 Webster] Foist \Foist\, n. 1. A foister; a sharper. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

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