foist

adj

1. Pronunciation spelling of first.

   “Cause if yer did the foist thing yer know along would come a blizzard an’ make yer out a liar.”

   “Guess that brandy the doc give me was the foist thing set me straight.”

noun

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

1. A cask for wine.
2. Fustiness; mustiness.

verb

Etymology: Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).

1. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.

   “But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.”

   “the Tale of Zayn al-Asnám is one of two which Galland repudiated, as having been foisted into his 8th volume without his knowledge”

2. To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.

   “I am, of course, perfectly aware of how old men try to foist on the public the decay of their intellects and all the rest of their senile shortcomings as valuable qualities, the possession of which gives them special authority.”

   “It is only a decade or so since the air was thick with muttering that L.M.S. influence was far too strong on the newly-born Railway Executive and that too many L.M.S. practices were being foisted on the rest of the system.”

3. To pass off as genuine or worthy.

   “foist costly and valueless products on the public”