See foist in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1936, Post Stories of 1936, pages 126 and 136:",
"text": "And the foist thing you know, he’s a musician, no less![…]They noticed I looked worried, and started givin’ me the third degree, and the foist thing you know they got it odda me.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1939, The New Yorker, page 22:",
"text": "The foist thing is the govnement gung to take away a big bunch money fa texis, you shouldn’t go to jail.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Bill Hutton, A History of America, Coach House Books, page 18:",
"text": "The foist thing I’m gonna do when this mess is over is to find me a pretty strumpet in Paris and stay in bed for a Goddamn week!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Pronunciation spelling of first."
],
"links": [
[
"Pronunciation spelling",
"pronunciation spelling"
],
[
"first",
"first#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"not-comparable",
"pronunciation-spelling"
]
}
],
"word": "foist"
}
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