fub
/fʌb/obsolete
fub is a verb meaning “To put off by trickery; to cheat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-B, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fub mean?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo put off by trickery; to cheat.
- 2
obsoleteTo steal.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA plump young person or child.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fub?
- /fʌb/
- /fʊb/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fub.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fub
- fubs present, singular, he/she/it
- fubbing participle, present
- fubbed participle, past
- fob
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fub?
Fub appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fub come from?
Variant of fob (“cheat, trick”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).