Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cheat; impose upon; snub.
- To steal; pocket; get possession of.
- n. A plump, chubby young person.
- n. The lowest quality of wool taken from a fleece.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, obsolete To put off by trickery; to cheat.
- n. obsolete A plump young person or child.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A plump young person or child.
- v. obsolete To put off by trickery; to cheat.
Etymologies
- Compare fob a pocket. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Because fub is not present for D&D tonight, I ruled that he sat down to talk to the priest, and this is what the troll says.”
“Page Summary fool000 — (no subject) [+0] janestarz — (no subject) [+0] sjiva — (no subject) [+2] fub — (no subject) [+8]”
“Page Summary damanique — (no subject) [+0] fub — (no subject) [+0]”
“Friday will see me with my love, one of his best friends, ingiechan and fub and all their colleagues and their wives at the TNJ barbecue.”
“A few days ago I did the make-meme, and I promised to make something especially for Jelka, querca_robur, anemoona, ingiechan, kainelslor and fub.”
“Page Summary fub — (no subject) [+0] woran — (no subject) [+0] anastaszia — (no subject) [+1] janestarz — (no subject) [+0]”
“(Reply) (Thread) (Link) fub on July 5th, 2010 03: 40 pm (UTC)”
“(Reply) (Thread) (Link) fub on April 7th, 2010 11: 26 am (UTC)”
“Eugene Volokh says: fub: What do you mean could exacerbate confusion?”
“Eugene Volokh: fub: What do you mean could exacerbate confusion?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fub’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fustilarian, fusillation, fustian, futurology, fusiform, futurition, fusee, fuscous, fusain, furunculoid, futtock, furibund and 418 more...
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Open List: Sheepishness
Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
lanolin, ram, ewe, Artiodactyla, even-toed ungulate, ruminant, Ovis aries, ovine, domestic, domesticated, neotenic, mouflon and 426 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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