different between fub vs gub

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

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Alternative forms

• fob

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
   • a. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2,

     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.

2. (obsolete) To steal.

Derived terms

• fubbery

Etymology 2

Compare fob (“a pocket”).

Noun

fub (plural fubs)

1. (obsolete) A plump young person or child.

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Derived terms

• fubby

Anagrams

• BUF

English

Noun

gub (plural gubs)

1. (Scotland slang) Mouth.
   • 1994, "The acid House", Irvine Welsh, in Eurotrash:

     "...fucked-up Yank who's too screwed up to lift a forkful of scran into her gub?"

Synonyms

• (mouth): gob

Verb

gub (third-person singular simple present gubs, present participle gubbing, simple past and past participle gubbed)

1. (slang) To defeat.

   We just got gubbed 5-1.

Anagrams

• Bug, bug

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?up/

Verb

gub

1. second-person singular imperative of gubi?

Somali

Verb

gub

1. to burn