foisted

We have found lemma(root) word of foisted : foist.

Definitions


[fɔɪst], (Verb)

Definitions:
- impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on
(e.g: she had no desire to have an elderly relative foisted on her)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment’): from Dutch dialect vuisten ‘take in the hand’, from vuist (see fist)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries