What's the difference between foister and roister?
Foister
Definition:
(n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Susan Foister, co-curator of the show, Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance, described the disposal of 37 works in 1856 as a "surprising" and little-known story.
(2) According to Dr Susan Foister, the National Gallery's director of collections, the painting "shows Cranach at his best, when he was working at the Saxon court.
(3) Foister said that "there was an idea of what should be collected and what should be admired".
Roister
Definition:
(v. i.) To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
(n.) See Roisterer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long before he first shrugged on Al Swearengen's stripy jacket and oiled his soup-straining moustache, McShane had always had his pick of cads and roister-doisters.
(2) Tories and their commentators roistered with delight at the non-shambles of Osborne's spending review.
(3) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
(4) (A 2007 survey for AA Legal Services of 2,600 elderly parents and adult children revealed that 70% of offspring fear that they will inherit only their roistering parents' debts .)
(5) A leadership election without him could all too easily be portrayed, both by his admirers and the party's opponents, as having no legitimacy: of playing Henry IV without Falstaff or, to be more exact, Prince Hal – the wayward roisterer who, by grace of state, is transformed into "this star of England".