foist: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Word of the Day for Saturday, June 4, 2011 foist \FOIST\, verb: 1. To force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably. 2. To bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently. It's too bright, the sky is too big, and we're always trying to foist our napalm off on Arizona. -- Nancy Lemann, Malaise: a novel And these missing elements fit well into the so-called Periodic Tables some chemists have tried to foist upon the science. -- Isaac Asimov, The early Asimov: or, Eleven years of trying: Volume 1 Foist comes from a phrase in Dutch dialect, vuisten, itself derived from vuist, "fist," in reference to concealing dice in one's hand during some game. Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help
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