Definitions
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- v. To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v.
- transitive v.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
Etymologies
“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. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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I couldn’t manage the Duchess, and I can’t palm off your arts on Louisa Bry as mine.
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It's quite enough to palm off a free woman upon this respectable company, without turning buy-bidder at the sale!”
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We are sure now that it was Count Walsegg who wished to palm off the composition as one of his own.
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