dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/fob_MW.json

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{
"fob off":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine":[],
": to put aside":[
"now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly",
"\u2014 Walter Lippmann"
],
": to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute":[]
},
"examples":[
"people who try to fob off to charities broken-down furniture that is fit only for the junkyard"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1597, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"foist",
"palm",
"palm off",
"pass off",
"wish"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124555",
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}