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Foist vs Skulk - What's the difference?

foist | skulk |

As verbs the difference between foist and skulk

is that foist is to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant while skulk is to conceal oneself; to hide.

As nouns the difference between foist and skulk

is that foist is a thief or pickpocket while skulk is a group of foxes.

foist

English

Etymology 1

Probably from obsolete (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
  • * 2006 — , 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
  • * {{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
    • , author=William Alexander Clouston , title= , year=}}
  • To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
  • To pass off as genuine or worthy.
  • * (rfdate) Jonathan Spivak — foist costly and valueless products on the public
    • Synonyms
    * fob off * pass off * pawn off * palm off

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thief or pickpocket.
  • * 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.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
    (Webster 1913) English transitive verbs

    skulk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of foxes.
    • (Wright)
  • One who skulks; a skulker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to conceal oneself; to hide
  • * Dryden
    • Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
  • * 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,
    • Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep.
  • to sneak around, sneak about
  • * 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,
    • Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]
  • to shirk; to avoid obligation