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fubbed

fubbed is the simple past and past participle of fub.

Meaning of fub

Verb

fub (third-person singular simple present fubs, present participle fubbing, simple past and past participle fubbed)

  1. (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.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
  2. (obsolete) To steal.

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Phrases with fubbed

Questions about fubbed

What is fubbed the simple past and past participle of?
Fubbed is the simple past and past participle of fub.

Words near fubbed in the dictionary

  1. fub off
  2. fubar
  3. FUBARed
  4. fubarite
  5. fubars
  6. fubbed
  7. fubbed off
  8. fubbery
  9. fubbing
  10. fubbing off
  11. fubble

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fubbed (page history and authors); fub (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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