foist

1. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
2. To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
3. To pass off as genuine or worthy.

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

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