FOIST
What does "FOIST" mean?
To impose something unwanted on someone by deception or without their consent.
Meanings
- To force an unwelcome or inferior thing on a person, often slyly. Don't let them foist the extra fees onto unsuspecting customers.
- To insert something fraudulently or surreptitiously into a text or set. A later scribe seems to have foisted that line into the manuscript. formal
Did you know?
- To foist once meant literally to palm a loaded die into a game: it comes from a Dutch word built on 'vuist', the fist that hid the cheat.
Word origin
Probably from Dutch dialect 'vuisten', to take in the hand or palm, from 'vuist' (fist); originally the cheating trick of palming a false die into a game.
Remember it
FOIST hides FIST - it began as the cheater's fist palming a false die into the game.
A little poem
A practiced hand, a die that lies-
what's foisted wears an honest guise.
couplet
What it teaches
What is foisted on you arrives smiling; the gift you never asked for usually has a price tag turned away.
Quick facts
What does FOIST mean?
To impose something unwanted on someone by deception or without their consent.
Is FOIST a valid word?
Yes — FOIST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FOIST?
FOIST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FOIST come from?
Probably from Dutch dialect 'vuisten', to take in the hand or palm, from 'vuist' (fist); originally the cheating trick of palming a false die into a game.
What can FOIST teach us?
What is foisted on you arrives smiling; the gift you never asked for usually has a price tag turned away.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.