foist
verb
[ fɔɪst ]
• impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on.
• "she had no desire to have an elderly relative foisted on her"
Similar:
impose,
force,
thrust,
offload,
unload,
dump,
palm off,
fob off,
shift on to,
pass off,
get rid of,
saddle someone with,
land someone with,
burden someone with,
lumber someone with,
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).
