fubbery

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/ˈfʌbəɹi/

noun

Cheating; deception.

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Meanings

nounfubbery (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableCheating; deception.

    O no, but dreame the moſt fantaſticall: O heauen: O fubbery, fubbery.

    c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii

Origin

From fub + -ery.

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