fub off

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English

Verb

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

  1. Archaic form of fob off.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 4, in Every Mother’s Son [Redheap], New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, →OCLC, section III, page 86:
      Do they [parents] not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?
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