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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -foist-, *foist*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
foist off on(phrv) ไม่สนใจ, Syn. fob off on, palm off on

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
foist(ฟอยซฺทฺ) vt. ยัดเยียด, หลอกขาย, หลอกใส่เข้าไป, เอามาใส่ให้อย่างปกปิดหรือคดโกง

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
foist(vt) ปลอม, หลอกขาย, ยัดเยียด, ปลอมแปลง

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
foist
foisted
foister

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
foist
foists
foisted
foisting

WordNet (3.0)
foist(v) to force onto another
foist(v) insert surreptitiously or without warrant
foist off(v) sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive, Syn. palm off, fob off

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Foist

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Foisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Foisting. ] [ Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist. ] To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption. R. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foist

n. [ OF. fuste stick, boat, fr. L. fustis cudgel. Cf. 1st Fust. ] A light and fast-sailing ship. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foist

n. 1. A foister; a sharper. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foister

n. One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foistied

a. [ See 2d Fust. ] Fusty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Foistiness

n. Fustiness; mustiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Foisty

a. Fusty; musty. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
売り付け;売付け;売付(io)[うりつけ, uritsuke] (n) selling; foisting; pushing [Add to Longdo]
皺寄せ;しわ寄せ[しわよせ, shiwayose] (n, vs) foisting upon; shifting to; shifting (the loss) to someone else [Add to Longdo]

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