foist

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• UK, US: /fɔɪst/
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• rhymes with -ɔɪst
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• CMU ARPABET: F OY1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).

From Old French fuste (“stick, boat”), from Latin fustis (“cudgel”).

From Old French fust (whence also French fût), from Latin fustis.

Fo + -ist

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: podsouvat — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Czech: podstrkovat — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Dutch: opdringen — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Dutch: aansmeren — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Finnish: ujuttaa — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• French: refourguer — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• German: aufdrängen — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• German: aufhalsen — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Hungarian: ráerőltet — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Hungarian: ráerőszakol — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Hungarian: rátukmál — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Italian: sbolognare — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Russian: подсу́нуть (podsúnutʹ) — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Russian: подсо́вывать (podsóvyvatʹ) — introduce or insert surreptitiously
• Bulgarian: натра́пвам (natrápvam) — force another to accept
• Bulgarian: натра́пя (natrápja) — force another to accept
• Czech: vnucovat — force another to accept
• Czech: vnutit — force another to accept
• Dutch: opdringen — force another to accept
• Finnish: ujuttaa — force another to accept
• French: imposer — force another to accept
• German: aufzwingen — force another to accept
• Hungarian: rásóz — force another to accept
• Hungarian: nyakába varr — force another to accept
• Italian: sbolognare — force another to accept
• Russian: навяза́ть (navjazátʹ) — force another to accept
• Russian: навя́зывать (navjázyvatʹ) — force another to accept
• Serbo-Croatian: uvaliti — force another to accept
• Spanish: endilgar — force another to accept
• Spanish: endosar — force another to accept
• Spanish: imponer — force another to accept
• Spanish: pegarse — force another to accept
• Spanish: enjaretar — force another to accept
• Spanish: endiñar — force another to accept
• Swedish: pracka på — force another to accept
• Bulgarian: пробу́твам (probútvam) — pass off as genuine
• Bulgarian: пробу́там (probútam) — pass off as genuine
• Dutch: opdringen — pass off as genuine
• Dutch: opzadelen met — pass off as genuine
• Finnish: panna kiertoon — pass off as genuine
• Hungarian: túlad — pass off as genuine
• Hungarian: elsóz — pass off as genuine
• Italian: sbolognare — pass off as genuine
• Russian: подсу́нуть (podsúnutʹ) — pass off as genuine
• Russian: подсо́вывать (podsóvyvatʹ) — pass off as genuine
• Ottoman Turkish: صاتمق (satmak) — pass off as genuine