fub off

A form of fob off — 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.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person fubs off · participle present fubbing off · participle past fubbed off · past fubbed off

  1. archaicArchaic form of fob off.

    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?

    Redheap

    1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 4, in Every Mother’s Son [Redheap], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, →OCLC, section III, page 86
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Chicago

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