Fub

Alternative forms

• fob

Full definition of fub

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
• a. 1599, William Shakespeare, ,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.

Compare fob a pocket.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A plump young person or child.