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"etymology_text": "“Palming” an object (as in a playing card) is a type of sleight of hand, secretly removing the desired article and leaving only the undesired one.",
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"ref": "1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee:",
"text": "The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods […]",
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"ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt^([sic]) get anyone to drink […]",
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"ref": "1963, United States Code Annotated:",
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"To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
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"(idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "sırımaq"
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
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"word": "всучи́вать"
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "panna kiertoon"
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
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"word": "صاتمق"
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
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"word": "всучи́вать"
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"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
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"word": "сбыва́ть"
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"word": "подсо́вывать"
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"roman": "sbágrivatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
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"word": "palm off"
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