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verb
- (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
- 2006 " w:Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist), Theodore Dalrymple, http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html The Gift of Language
- : attempts to alleged grammatical "correctness" on native speakers of an "incorrect" dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control
- (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
- (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
- (rfdate) Jonathan Spivak " costly and valueless products on the public
Translations: - Dutch: (t, nl, opdringen), (t, nl, opzadelen) met
- Italian: sbolognare
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Etymology: Probably from obsolete (term, vuisten, , to take into one"s hand), from (term, vuysten), from (term, vuyst, , fist); akin to Old English (term, fyst, , fist).
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