英语词汇“foist”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	foist
释义	foist I. noun (-s) Etymology: from earlier fuste, from Middle French, from fust wood, stick, beam, barrel, from Latin fustis cudgel 1. obsolete : a light galley 2. obsolete : riverboat : barge II. \ˈfȯist\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: probably from obs Dutch vuisten to take into one's hand, from Middle Dutch vūsten, vuisten, from vūst, vuist fist; akin to Old English fȳst fist — more at fist *transitive verb* 1. obsolete : to introduce when palmed : palm — used of dice 2. a. : to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant < the comments of men … had been foisted into Christian religion — Matthew Arnold > b. : to force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit < there are two nestlings unless a cowbird has foisted its brat upon them — D.C.Peattie > < when the states … foist unnecessary expenses on local taxpayers — T.C.Desmond > c. : to attribute wrongfully < an author may try out a theory on paper and be dissatisfied with it. If by chance the document survives him it is unfair to foist the doctrine upon him — R.I.Aaron > < a purely imaginary characteristic is foisted on the universe and presented as an axiom of science — Herbert Dengle > 3. : to pass off (something spurious) as genuine or worthy < her novel is better written than many foisted on the reading public — Harry Hansen > *intransitive verb* 1. obsolete : to practice cheating 2. obsolete : to pick pockets III. noun (-s) 1. obsolete : foister 2. obsolete : rascality, swindle
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