foist

Synonyymisanakirja

foist

panna sisään, sulkea sisäänsä, laittaa, sujauttaa, ujuttaa, vaivata, kaataa, iskeä, tyrkyttää.

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poltergeist, twist, kuminauhatwist...

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Englannin sanakirja

foist (englanti > suomi)

1. ujuttaa

foist englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

2. 2006 — w:Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)|Theodore Dalrymple, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html The Gift of Language

attempts to foist alleged grammatical “correctness” on native speakers of an “incorrect” dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control

3. {{quote-book|passage=the Tale of Zayn al-Asnám is one of two which Galland repudiated, as having been foisted into his 8th volume without his knowledge

4. puhekieltä To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.

5. puhekieltä To pass off as genuine or worthy.

6. (rfdat) Jonathan Spivak — foist costly and valueless products on the public

7. puhekieltä A thief or pickpocket.

8. 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society 2006, p. 54:

The foist had lately arrived form the country and was known to be doing a thriving trade in and around Westminster Hall where many country folk and others came to see lawyers.

9. puhekieltä A light and fast-sailing ship.

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