fub
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fub (third-person singular simple present fubs, present participle fubbing, simple past and past participle fubbed)
- (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.
- (obsolete) To steal.
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Etymology 2 edit
Compare fob (“a pocket”).
Noun edit
fub (plural fubs)
- (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.
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References edit
- “fub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
See also edit
- phub (“to ignore due to activity on one's cellphone”)