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Foisting (off)
Answer for the clue "Foisting (off) ", 7 letters:
fobbing
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Wiktionary
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vb. (present participle of fob English)
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Fobbing is a small village in Thurrock , Essex, England and one of Thurrock's traditional (Church of England) parishes . It is located between Basildon and Corringham, and is also close to Stanford-le-Hope. Fobbing is one of seven conservation areas in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fob \Fob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fobbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fobbing .] [Cf.Fop.] To beat; to maul. [Obs.] To cheat; to trick; to impose on. --Shak. To fob off , to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could ...
Usage examples of fobbing.
Fanny had entertained serious thoughts of sending home her barouche, and could not understand the impulse which prompted Serena, morning after morning, to escape from Bath, attended only by her devoted but critical groom, Fobbing, to the surrounding hills.
I should have been in disgrace with Fobbing for a week, had he seen our cavalcade!
Tell old Runcorn that Fobbing will ride over to fetch home my mare in a couple of days’ time, if you please, and arrange for four good horses to be put to half an hour from now.
Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites.
Flavia, however, was long practiced in fobbing people off with vague statements about leads and general lines of inquiry, sugaring the pill with promises of full explanations later.
I suspect a chain of pilfering—some shady European go-between picking them up for a song, forging their provenance, then fobbing them off long-distance on Adelia and pocketing the difference, judging correctly that a rich American—for so he would have tagged her—wouldn’t cotton on.