Foist is believed to derive from the obsolete Dutch verb vuisten, meaning "to take into one's hand." Vuisten in turn comes from vuyst, the Middle Dutch word for "fist," which itself is distantly related to the Old English ancestor of fist. 

The word foist was first used in English as a noun in the mid 1500s and was originally used to describe a cheating tactic in dice games.  The earliest known use of the adjective foist is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for foist is from 1691, in the writing of John Ray, naturalist and theologian. 

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