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Qualm vs Foist - What's the difference?

qualm | foist |

As nouns the difference between qualm and foist

is that qualm is smoke while foist is a thief or pickpocket or foist can be (obsolete) a light and fast-sailing ship.

As a verb foist is

to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

qualm

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mortality; plague; pestilence.
  • A calamity or disaster.
  • A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2012-08-25 , year= , first= , last= , author=Andy Pasztor , authorlink= , title=Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies , site=Wall Street Journal citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-26 , passage=Opponents of those privatization plans hoped to use Mr. Armstrong's qualms as ammunition to block the White House initiatives, and they asked for more public statements. }}
  • A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
  • A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.)

    • Synonyms

    * compunction * misgiving * scruple

    Derived terms

    * qualmish * qualmishly * qualmishness * qualmy

    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