Foisty vs Foists - What's the difference?
foisty | foists |
mouldy, musty, fusty
* 1669 , John Worlidge, Systema agriculturae: The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered :
* 2000 , Samuel Bamford, Martin Hewitt, Robert Poole, The Diaries of Samuel Bamford , page 2:
(foist)
To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
* 2006 — ,
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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
A thief or pickpocket.
* 1977 , Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld , Folio Society 2006, p. 54:
(obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
As an adjective foisty
is mouldy, musty, fusty.As a verb foists is
(foist).foisty
English
Adjective
(er)- Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty .
- Papers 150 years old, mildewed, rotten and stinking like muck; and mouldy foisty old books dating from 1638.
References
*foists
English
Verb
(head)foist
English
Etymology 1
Probably from obsolete (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)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
Synonyms
* fob off * pass off * pawn off * palm offNoun
(en noun)- 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)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)