fub

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/fʌb/
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/fʌb/ · /fʊb/

Definition of fub

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To put off by trickery; to cheat.
    “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.”
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verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To put off by trickery; to cheat.
    “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.

noun

  1. (obsolete)A plump young person or child.
    “'Tis he that I told you is to marry my Indian Fubs of a Sister.”

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Etymology

Variant of fob (“cheat, trick”).

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