foist
Kelime Anlamı :
1. yamamak.
2. on -e kakalamak.
3. kazıklamak.
4. kakalamak.
5. aslı diye kabul ettirmek.
6. foist something off on somebody hile ile kabul ettirmek.
7. mal kaçırmak.
8. sokuşturmak.
9. yüklemek.
10. yutturmak.
Tanımlar :
1.
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).
2. 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.
3. to insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
2. 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.
3. to insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
2. to force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
3. to pass off as genuine or worthy.
4. A thief or pickpocket.
2. to force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
3. to pass off as genuine or worthy.
4. A thief or pickpocket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A light and fast-sailing ship.
2. A foister; a sharper.
3. A trick or fraud; a swindle.
4. 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.
2. A foister; a sharper.
3. A trick or fraud; a swindle.
4. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
to work in by a trick; thrust in wrongfully, surreptitiously, or without warrant; insert or obtrude fraudulently or by imposition; pass or palm off as genuine or worthy: followed by in or into before the thing affected, and by upon before the person: as, to foist a spurious document upon one.
2. to falsify or make fraudulent by some insertion; cog, as a die.
3. to smell musty: same as fust.
4. same as foisty.
5. A breaking wind without noise: same as fist, 1.
6. A puffball.
7. A sly trick; a juggle; an imposition.
8. A cheat; a sharper.
9. A cutpurse; a pickpocket. also foister.
10. A light and fast-sailing ship.
2. to falsify or make fraudulent by some insertion; cog, as a die.
3. to smell musty: same as fust.
4. same as foisty.
5. A breaking wind without noise: same as fist, 1.
6. A puffball.
7. A sly trick; a juggle; an imposition.
8. A cheat; a sharper.
9. A cutpurse; a pickpocket. also foister.
10. A light and fast-sailing ship.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia