fub
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 3
/fʌb/
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/fʌb/ · /fʊb/
Definition of fub
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(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.”
- (obsolete)To steal.
noun
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(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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