† foistfustn.1
Obsolete.figurative.1569 B. Googe Shippe of Safegarde 34 Nor taking heede his fleshly foyst to guide.a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize ii. vi, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooooov/2 This Pinck, this painted Foyst, this Cockle-boat.
1. A light galley; a vessel propelled both by sails and oars. Cf. felucca n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > vessels propelled by oars and sails > galley
galleya1300
fust1481
foist1485
row-galley1513
langfadc1540
lymphadc1540
crumster1596
1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 68 By aduenture they fonde a fuste.
1558–80 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes i. i. 17 b Wee were set vpon by fiue foystes of Pirates.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 430 Peeces of great ordinance placed in fusts and gallies.
1777 tr. J. A. Comenius Orbis Sensualium Pictus (rev. ed.) 111 A ship furnished with oars is a barge, or a foyst.
2. A barge, a small boat used on the river.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > large ornamented or state
barge1584
galley-foist1589
foistc1600
bucentaur1623
c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 18 A barge..rytchlie behanged with cloath of golde and a foyste to wayte on her.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes cxxxiii, in Wks. I. 816 One day in the yeere, for sweet 'tis voyc't And that is when it is the Lord Maiors foist.
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foistn.2
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [verb (intransitive)] > be tainted
to savour of the foista1533
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Q.v Good wyne sometyme sauoureth of the foyst.
2. Hence, Fustiness. [ < French fust (Cotgrave).]
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fustiness
fustiness1526
mustiness1526
foistiness1576
frowziness1729
foist1819
funkiness1843
frowstiness1923
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XIV Foist, used to signify a musty sort of smell among hay, straw, grain, and other farm products.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Foist, the mildew'd scent of a cellar.
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foistn.3
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Categories »
a. = fist n.2 1.
Categories »
b. dialect. = fist n.2 2.
c. Combination. = fist-ball n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > puff-ball
wolf's-fista1300
puckfistc1300
puff1538
earth-puff1585
foist1593
fist1597
fuzz-ball1597
puff-fist1597
bunt1601
fuzz1601
bullfist1611
mully-puff1629
fist-ball1635
puffball1649
puck-ball1730
puffin1755
lycoperdon1756
frog cheese1766
puck1766
fuzzy-ballc1850
ball smut1925
1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (Grosart) II. 204 A fatall foyst.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiv. lxiv. 1324 The Fusse balls or rather Foist or Fist balls.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Foyst..a close strong Stink, without Noise or Report.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Foist, a toad-stool, Suffolk.
d. U.S. = fice n., fist n.2 3.
ΚΠ
1851 J. B. Lamar in J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 18 [The sounding of the horn] was sufficient invitation to every hound, foist, and ‘cur of low degree’ to join in the chorus.
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† foistn.4
Obsolete.
1. A cheat, a rogue; a pick-pocket.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun]
feature14..
frauderc1475
prowler1519
lurcher1528
defrauder1552
frauditor1553
taker-upc1555
verserc1555
fogger1564
Jack-in-the-box1570
gilenyer1590
foist1591
rutter1591
crossbiter1592
sharker1594
shark1600
bat-fowler1602
cheater1606
foister1610
operator1611
fraudsman1613
projector1615
smoke-sellera1618
decoy1618
firkera1626
scandaroon1631
snapa1640
cunning shaver1652
knight of industrya1658
chouse1658
cheat1664
sharper1681
jockey1683
rooker1683
fool-finder1685
rookster1697
sheep-shearer1699
bubbler1720
gyp1728
bite1742
swindler1770
pigeon1780
mace1781
gouger1790
needle1790
fly-by-night1796
sharp1797
skinner1797
diddler1803
mace cove1811
mace-gloak1819
macer1819
flat-catcher1821
moonlight wanderer1823
burner1838
Peter Funk1840
Funk1842
pigeoner1849
maceman1850
bester1856
fiddler1857
highway robber1874
bunco-steerer1875
swizzler1876
forty1879
flim-flammer1881
chouser1883
take-down1888
highbinder1890
fraud1895
Sam Slick1897
grafter1899
come-on1905
verneuker1905
gypster1917
chiseller1918
tweedler1925
rorter1926
gazumper1932
chizzer1935
sharpie1942
sharpster1942
slick1959
slickster1965
rip-off artist1968
shonky1970
rip-off merchant1971
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket
fig-boyc1555
foister1585
foist1591
pickpocket1591
bung1600
diver1608
pocket-picker1622
pocketeerc1626
bung-nipper1659
file1673
filer1674
shark1707
hoister1708
knuckle1781
knuckler1801
buzzgloak1819
cly-faker1819
fingersmith1819
knuck1819
fogle hunter1821
buzzman1832
nobbler1839
wire1851
gonoph1853
wirer1857
dip1859
moll-tooler1859
buzzer1862
hook1863
snotter1864
tool1865
pocket-cutter1885
dipper1889
pogue-hunter1896
pick1902
finger1925
whizz1925
whizzer1925
prat diggera1931
whizz-boy1931
whizz-man1932
reefer1935
1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage To Rdr. sig. B4 The Foist, the picke-pockets (sir reuerence I meane).
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Lv Mol. This braue fellow is no bettet [sic] then a foyst. Omnes. Foyst, what's that? Mol. A..picke-pocket.
1659 Lady Alimony v. iii. sig. Ki You shall play no more the sharking foist with me.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Foyst, a Cheat or Rogue.
2. A piece of roguery, trick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] > instance of
rascality1582
roguery1594
foist1607
scoundrelism1611
vagabundulo1631
vagabondism1841
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > a trick, deception
wrenchc888
swikec893
braida1000
craftOE
wile1154
crookc1175
trokingc1175
guile?c1225
hocket1276
blink1303
errorc1320
guileryc1330
sleightc1340
knackc1369
deceitc1380
japec1380
gaudc1386
syllogism1387
mazec1390
mowa1393
train?a1400
trantc1400
abusionc1405
creekc1405
trickc1412
trayc1430
lirtc1440
quaint?a1450
touch1481
pawka1522
false point?1528
practice1533
crink1534
flim-flamc1538
bobc1540
fetcha1547
abuse1551
block1553
wrinklec1555
far-fetch?a1562
blirre1570
slampant1577
ruse1581
forgery1582
crank1588
plait1589
crossbite1591
cozenage1592
lock1598
quiblin1605
foist1607
junt1608
firk1611
overreach?1615
fob1622
ludification1623
knick-knacka1625
flam1632
dodge1638
gimcrack1639
fourbe1654
juggle1664
strategy1672
jilt1683
disingenuity1691
fun1699
jugglementa1708
spring1753
shavie1767
rig?1775
deception1794
Yorkshire bite1795
fakement1811
fake1829
practical1833
deceptivity1843
tread-behind1844
fly1861
schlenter1864
Sinonism1864
racket1869
have1885
ficelle1890
wheeze1903
fast one1912
roughie1914
spun-yarn trick1916
fastie1931
phoney baloney1933
fake-out1955
okey-doke1964
mind-fuck1971
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > trick or scheme
unwrenchc897
un-i-wrenchc1275
checkc1330
trippetc1330
wrest14..
knavery1528
foist1607
spiel1901
1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. ix. sig. H4v Put not your foyst's vpon me, I shall sent 'hem. View more context for this quotation
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. vi. 83 Which if you call a foyst, all your owne side are as guilty as our selves.
1654 R. Vilvain Theoremata Theologica iii. f. 115 What fine foists and brazen bolts are thes to bolster a bad caus?
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.)
3. Something foisted in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > intrusion > that which is introduced forcefully
obtrusion1606
foista1734
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. §101 495 The Author gives the following Speech of May 28, by Way of Foist in the Place of that before of the 23d of May.
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foistn.5
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ rare.
A fogy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned
mumpsimus1573
fogram1760
fogey1792
fogramite1813
frump1817
primitist1818
foist1820
Rip Van Winkle1833
foozle1860
old-timer1860
mossyback1865
mossback1873
dugout1912
pterodactyl1921
unhip1936
fud1942
square1944
primitivist1975
retread1982
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 105 The reins were continually slipping out of the fingers of the ancient foists [‘the old drivers of the periodical Heavies’].
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foistadj.
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ dialect.
Fusty.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty
fusty1398
musty1492
foisty1519
foistied1572
fusted1598
foughty1600
frowish1608
rafty1655
funkya1680
foisted1688
foist1691
frowsty1865
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Foist, Fusty.
1721–92 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 495/1 Foist or Foust, a provincial word signifying mouldy or rusty.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Foist, foisty.
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foistv.1
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (intransitive)] > cheat
cog1545
foist1545
to cog a die or the dice1564
top1663
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > play at dice [verb (transitive)] > cheat
foist1545
strike1586
stop1596
top1663
palm1671
slip1711
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 19 If they be true dise, what shyfte wil they make to set ye one of them with slyding, with cogging, with foysting, with coytinge as they call it.
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Civ R. But what shift haue they to bring the flat in & out? M. A ioly fine shifte yt properly is called foysting, & it is..a sleight to cary easely within the hand, as often as the foister list. So yt when either he or his partener shall cast ye dice, the flat comes not abrod, til he haue made a great hande, and won as much as him list.
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Cii If..this young scholler haue not so redy..an eye, to deserne the flat at euery time that hee is foysted in.
1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge iii. f. 59 Through fooysting and coggyng their dye, and other false playe.
a. intransitive. To practise roguery, to cheat. Obsolete. Cf. cog v.3
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > act fraudulently, cheat [verb (intransitive)]
faitc1330
defraudc1384
to take (the) advantagea1393
false1393
halt1412
haft1519
juggle1528
wily beguile1550
foist1584
lurch1593
fog1621
imposture1624
rook1637
impone1640
cheat1647
chicane1671
humbug1753
fineer1765
gag1781
mountebank1814
jockeya1835
sniggle1837
barney1848
straw1851
honeyfuggle1856
skinch1891
finagle1926
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London i. A iij b Thou doest nothing but cog, lie, and foist with hypocrisie.
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. Lv A picke-pocket; all his traine study the figging law, that's to say, cutting of purses and foysting.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle
defraud1362
deceivec1380
plucka1500
lurch1530
defeata1538
souse1545
lick1548
wipe1549
fraud1563
use1564
cozen1573
nick1576
verse1591
rooka1595
trim1600
skelder1602
firk1604
dry-shave1620
fiddle1630
nose1637
foista1640
doa1642
sharka1650
chouse1654
burn1655
bilk1672
under-enter1692
sharp1699
stick1699
finger1709
roguea1714
fling1749
swindle1773
jink1777
queer1778
to do over1781
jump1789
mace1790
chisel1808
slang1812
bucket1819
to clean out1819
give it1819
to put in the hole1819
ramp1819
sting1819
victimize1839
financier1840
gum1840
snakea1861
to take down1865
verneuk1871
bunco1875
rush1875
gyp1879
salt1882
daddle1883
work1884
to have (one) on toast1886
slip1890
to do (a person) in the eye1891
sugar1892
flay1893
to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895
con1896
pad1897
screw1900
short-change1903
to do in1906
window dress1913
ream1914
twist1914
clean1915
rim1918
tweedle1925
hype1926
clip1927
take1927
gazump1928
yentz1930
promote1931
to take (someone) to the cleaners1932
to carve up1933
chizz1948
stiff1950
scam1963
to rip off1969
to stitch up1970
skunk1971
to steal (someone) blind1974
diddle-
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > trick out of
delude1493
juggle1531
bull1532
defeata1538
cozen1602
Don Diego1607
foista1640
sham1681
jockey1719
fling1749
short1942
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sea Voy. i. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaa2/2 If I be foysted and jeer'd out of my goods.
a. To put forth or allege fraudulently. Obsolete. Cf. cog v.3 6.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > introduce fraudulently
shuffle1565
cog1570
foista1640
foba1652
to trump up1695
a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 35 Men must take heed that they foyst not the name of Christ: that they foyst not a ticket to say that Christ sent them.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery in Wks. I. 450 Some..by foisting a counterfeit donation of Constantine..advanced themselves.
b. To introduce surreptitiously or unwarrantably into; also with in adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > intrude or insinuate
intruse?a1500
ingyre1513
shuffle1565
cog1570
foist1570
wind?1570
obtrudea1575
interject1588
filch?1589
intrude1592
inthrust1605
possess1606
suborna1620
inedge1632
interlopea1641
subintroducteda1641
subintroduce1643
to hedge in1664
insinuate1665
dodge1687
lug1721
assinuate1742
wriggle1766
fudge1776
intertrude1809
injeer1820
protrude1840
sniggle1881
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 978/1 Onlesse..by some fraudulent mysdealyng of myne enemies, there be any thyng foysted in them.
1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 173 They..desire to shift and foist in the Bishop of Rome to be head of the church in earth, in the stead of Christ.
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 76 A rude..familiarity..with the name of God (foisting it up and down in common communication and oathes).
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 372 A general and ambiguous clause was foisted into the Oath of Allegiance.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub xi. 198 A Passage..(whether foisted in by the Transcriber, is not known).
1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens I. 275 The..interpolations..supposed to be foisted into the Odyssey.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 73 The zeal of San Carlo Borromeo has foisted in subsidiary altars, to the detriment of the grand simplicity of its first plan.
1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars iii. 156 [He] was eventually foisted into the see of Durham.
c. To palm or put off; to fasten or fix stealthily or unwarrantably on or upon; occasionally to father (a composition) upon: rarely with off.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] > attribute to an author or source
refera1398
reducec1454
father?1499
entitle1550
intitule1559
foist1598
attribute1599
mother1645
authoridate1652
accredit1864
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > evade [verb (transitive)] > put off
pop1530
to put off1569
to fode forth (also occasionally forward, off, on, out)1591
to shift offc1592
foist1598
to fob off1600
fub1600
to shuffle off1604
doffa1616
jig1633
to trump upa1640
whiffle1654
to fool off1664
sham1682
drill1752
to set off1768
to put by1779
jilt1782
palm1822
stall1829
job1872
to give (a person) the go-around1925
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C7v When Tegeran Brags that he foystes his rotten Curtezan Vpon his heire.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iii. vi. 80 in 3 New Playes (1655) Am I grown So weak..that these gross tricks May be foisted on me?
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 9 The unskilfull fraud of him that foisted this Epistle upon Ignatius.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xv. 1971 The ignorant assertions foisted on the public by editors.
1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year III. i. 18 To attempt to foist himself upon a borough with which he had no connexion.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vii. 157 Each lady-contributor takes it in her turn..to foist off its contents on a shrinking male public.
1879 G. A. Sala Paris herself Again II. iii. 34 You have inferior articles foisted on you while being charged for the best.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > remove surreptitiously
shufflea1616
foist1658
1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified vii. 163 There is rather something foisted out of the former Edition, then foisted in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)] > dispose of fraudulently > by deceiving someone
to fob off1600
foist1602
smooth1680
sham1682
palm1822
shab1840
lowball1973
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. B Where he had wont to giue a score of crownes, Doth he now foyst me with a Portague.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > be or become invisible [verb (intransitive)] > vanish or disappear
formeltc893
wendOE
witea1000
aworthc1000
fleec1200
fleetc1200
withdraw1297
vanish1303
voidc1374
unkithea1400
startc1405
disappearc1425
disparishc1425
to fall awayc1443
evanish?a1475
vade1495
sinka1500
vade1530
fly1535
fadea1538
melt?1567
dispear1600
relinquish1601
foist1603
dispersea1616
to vanish (melt, etc.) into thin aira1616
dissipate1626
retire1647
evaporate1713
merge1802
illude1820
to foam off1826
dislimn1833
furl1844
to step out1844
evanesce1855
shade1880
wisp1883
to go to the winds1884
walk1898
to do a disappearing act1913
to go west1916
to do (or take) a fade1949
to phase out1970
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily
steal1154
to steal one's wayc1385
skew?a1400
astealc1400
fleetc1400
slip?c1450
shrink1530
flinch1563
shift1594
foist1603
shab1699
slope1851
smuggle1865
sneak1896
mope1914
to oil out1945
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > infuse [verb (reflexive)] > intrude or insinuate > of a person
ingyre1513
thrust1530
wind1548
wreathea1571
insinuate1578
screw1602
foist1603
wimble1605
wriggle1670
worm1711
1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. I3v These beg no place, nor foist into office, but if it come, they vnwillingly hold it.
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 61 But she was gone for when she list, She foist away could in a Mist.
6. intransitive. slang. (See quot.)
ΚΠ
1585 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 303 Note that ffoyste is to cutt a pockett, nyppe is to cutt a purse, lyft is to robbe a shoppe.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Foyst, to pick a pocket.
Derivatives
ˈfoisted adj.
ΚΠ
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 627/2 This foisted and falsely termed fundamentall law Salique.
ˈfoisting n. and adj.
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1586 T. Newton tr. L. Daneau Dice-play vi As many foysting coseners..use to do.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiv. 416 If it be possible for a booke to bee preserued from falsifying and foysting, what booke shall that be but the Byble?
1621 R. Speed Counter-scuffle sig. C Thou cogging, Base foysting Lawyer.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd ix. 105 You well enough perceive her foystings and her flatteries.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. v. 70 The bold foysting in (to use the Remonstrants words) of a Parenthesis.
a1687 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 18 Make no more such Foisting here.
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foistv.2
/fɔɪst/, U.S. /fɔɪst/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
intransitive. To smell or grow musty.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] > become fusty or musty
must1530
foisty1572
foist1583
fusta1592
musty1631
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxix. 735 And what becomes of the Corne in the meanewhyle? It foysteth and rotteth.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 109 Corne..will foyst with lyinge longe in the Garner.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Foist, to smell fusty.
Derivatives
ˈfoisted adj. musty.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty
fusty1398
musty1492
foisty1519
foistied1572
fusted1598
foughty1600
frowish1608
rafty1655
funkya1680
foisted1688
foist1691
frowsty1865
the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > mouldy or musty
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
mocha1522
hoary1530
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
mowsy1566
foistied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
musted1632
mouldish1648
emucid1656
mucid1656
mungy1658
mouldly1678
foisted1688
mothery1697
vinnewya1722
rusty-fustya1790
musty-fusty1857
mucidous1866
blue-vinnied1880
blue-veined1898
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [adjective] > musty or mouldy
fennyc1000
vinnyOE
mouleda1250
moulya1398
mouldena1400
spaked1438
vinniedc1450
mouldy1495
hoared1496
mustyc1503
foisty1519
hoary1530
moskin1531
hoar1544
mouldeda1552
foistied1572
mustied1572
fustied1576
spaky1590
mildewed1605
musted1632
mucid1656
mungy1658
foisted1688
vinnewya1722
mochy1825
musty-smelling1852
musty-fusty1857
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 317/1 Musty, Fusty, Foisted, Puft Corn.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xi. 203/1 They brewed foisted Beer and corrupt Beer again.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Foisted..musty, as a mouldy cask.
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† foistv.3
Obsolete.
intransitive. To break wind silently.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > break wind [verb (intransitive)] > silently or quietly
fizzle?1533
foist1594
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D2 If at anie time hee should foist.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. F3v Spurne your hounds when they foiste [1604, 1605 fyste].
1694 Urquhart's Rabelais ii. xv. 102 The false old Trot did so fizzle and foist [1653 fist], that she stunk like a hundred Devils.
Derivatives
ˈfoisting adj. usually in foisting cur, foisting hound, etc.; cf. fisting adj.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [adjective] > silently or quietly
foistingc1611
fizzling1758
c1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad (1857) Pref. 65 The barkings of puppies, or foisting hounds.
1673 Siege in W. Davenant Wks. iv.72/2 D'ye snarl ye foysting Mongrels?
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 24 As for Shepherds dogs, foisting Curs, and such whom some fond Ladies make their daily..Companions.
ˈfoister n. one who foists.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of breaking wind > [noun] > person > silently or quietly
fizzler1582
foister1677
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Ppppivv/3 Vesseur, a foister, or a fizzler.
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v.11545v.21583v.31594- draw a guernsey
- draw a line
- draw a line in the sand
- draw a line under
- draw a line under something
- draw a parallel
- draw a person out of the hat
- draw a person to death
- draw a person's eyeteeth
- draw a person's leg
- draw a person's mouth
- draw a sneck
- draw a straw or straws
- draw a thing out of the hat
- draw a veil
- draw a veil over
- draw a wood blank
- draw abroad
- draw after
- draw against
- draw along
- draw an indictment
- draw and quarter
- draw arch
- draw away