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Definition of Foisting
1. foist [v] - See also: foist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foisting
Literary usage of Foisting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"As for shepherds' uo^s, foisting сип, and such whom some fond ladies make their
daily, ... foisting) cur, catellus graveolens." Diet. ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"It is evidently the last small remnant of the old English foisting cur, quoted
as foisting hound in "Wright's Provincial Dialects. ..."
3. The College and New America by Jay William Hudson (1920)
"And if the foisting of purposes upon the student is psychologically a mistake,
then the foisting of the scholarship purpose upon him is a much worse error ..."
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