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fub off

fub off is the archaic form of fob off.

Meaning of fob off

Verb

fob off (third-person singular simple present fobs off, present participle fobbing off, simple past and past participle fobbed off)

  1. (informal, transitive) To use lies, excuses, or deceit to satisfy (someone); to deceitfully appease someone by giving something that is spurious or inferior from what was wanted or expected.
    • When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses.
  2. (informal, transitive) To fraudulently dispose of (goods).
    • He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.

Forms of fub off

third-person singular presentfubs off
present participlefubbing off
past participlefubbed off
pastfubbed off

Questions about fub off

What is fub off the archaic form of?
Fub off is the archaic form of fob off.

Words near fub off in the dictionary

  1. fuangs
  2. fuar
  3. fuark
  4. fuars
  5. fub
  6. fub off
  7. fubar
  8. FUBARed
  9. fubarite
  10. fubars
  11. fubbed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fub off (page history and authors); fob off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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