Fub vs Cub - What's the difference?
fub | cub |
(obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
* a.'' 1599 , ,
A member of the Cub Scouts.
(baseball) A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
As verbs the difference between fub and cub
is that fub is (obsolete) to put off by trickery; to cheat while cub is coop.As nouns the difference between fub and cub
is that fub is (obsolete) a plump young person or child while cub is coop (pen or enclosure for birds).fub
English
Etymology 1
(en)Alternative forms
* fobVerb
(fubb)- 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.
Etymology 2
Compare (fob) a pocket.cub
English
Proper noun
(Cubs)- Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.