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fubs

fubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fub.

fubs is the plural 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 fubs

Questions about fubs

What is fubs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fubs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fub.

Words near fubs in the dictionary

  1. fubble
  2. fubbles
  3. fubby
  4. fuberidazole
  5. Fubini's theorem
  6. fubs
  7. fubs off
  8. fubsier
  9. fubsiest
  10. fubsily
  11. fubsiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fubs (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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