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Definitions of foist in various dictionaries:
verb - to force onto another
verb - insert surreptitiously or without warrant
To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: “I can usually tell whether a poet... is foisting off on us what he’d like to think is pure invention” (J.
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| Impose |
| Impose (on) |
| Palm off |
| Insert surreptitiously |
| Impose (upon) |
| Thrust (upon) |
| Pass off |
| Dump (on) |
| Pass off as genuine |
| Compel to accept |
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| To pass off as genuine; it comes from a Dutch word meaning "fist" (just add a letter) |
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| Impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on. |
| impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on. |
| to force onto another |
| insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention ( J.D. Salinger). |
| To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. |
| To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract. |
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The fusta or fuste (also called foist or galliot) was a narrow, light and fast ship with shallow draft, powered by both oars and sailin essence a small galley. It typically had 12 to 18 two-man rowing benches on each side, a single mast with a lateen (triangular) sail, and usually carried two or three guns. The sail was used to cruise and save the rowers energy, while the oars propelled the ship in and out of harbor and during combat. * The fusta was the favorite ship of the North African corsairs of Salé and the Barbary Coast. Its speed, mobility, capability to move without wind, and its ability to operate in shallow watercrucial for hiding in coastal waters before pouncing on a passing shipmade it ideal for war and piracy. It was mainly with fustas that the Barbarossa brothers, Baba Aruj and Khair ad Din, carried out the Ottoman conquest of North Africa and the rescue of Mudéjars and Moriscos from Spain after the fall of Granada, and that they and the other North African corsairs u |