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Fub

//fʌb// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A plump young person or child. obsolete

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To put off by trickery; to cheat. obsolete, transitive

    "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. 2
    To steal. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of fob (“cheat, trick”).

Etymology 2

Compare fob (“a pocket”).

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