Other forms: foisted, foisting, foists
To foist is to force something unwanted on somebody. Foist it on us, foisted upon them, foist a decision.
It takes on or upon and it is always resented — foisting is imposing something the other party did not choose. The origin is a cheat's: it probably comes from a Dutch word for taking into the hand, from palming a false die into a game.
1verbfoistTo force something unwanted on somebody.
“Don't let the salesman foist an expensive warranty on you.”
foist is an imposing.
Probably from an archaic Dutch verb meaning to take into one's hand, from a word for a fist — from palming a false die.
Middle Dutch
vuysten
Dutch
vuisten — to take into one’s hand
English, today
foist
Built from
Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA