| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To gag, juggle, trick or wangle.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To bamboozle or shortchange. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To dupe, fool or gull. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To hoax, outsmart or spoof. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To lace or snare. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To avoid or jink. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To beguile, cheat, humbug, impose or jockey. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To chisel or gouge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To deceive, diddle, hoodwink, mislead or mystify.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb foist.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (foist) | 1. To force onto another; "He foisted his work on me".[Wordnet]. 2. Insert surreptitiously or without warrant.[Wordnet]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: foisting, foisted, foists, foister, foisters, foistingly and foistedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FOISTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FOISTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Inserting surreptitiously or without authority.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of foist. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: foist
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Foist off | Sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: foist
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Galley foist | Slang in 1811 | GALLEY FOIST. A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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