fub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʌb/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /fʊb/
• Rhymes: -ʌb

Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

• fob

Verb

fub (third-person singular simple present fubs, present participle fubbing, simple past and past participle fubbed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A hundred mark is a long score for a poor lone woman to bear : and I have borne, and borne, and borne ; and have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame to be thought on.

2. (obsolete) To steal.

Derived terms

• fub off
• fubbery

Etymology 2

Compare fob (“a pocket”).

Noun

fub (plural fubs)

1. (obsolete) A plump young person or child.
   • 1685, John Crowne, Sir Courtly Nice:

     'Tis he that I told you is to marry my Indian Fubs of a Sister.

Derived terms

• fubby
• fubsy

References

• “fub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

See also

• phub (“to ignore due to activity on one's cellphone”)

Anagrams

• BUF, FBU