Fub vs Hub - What's the difference?
fub | hub |
(obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
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The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.
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, title= (computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch .
(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.
(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
A screw hob.
A block for scotching a wheel.
As nouns the difference between fub and hub
is that fub is (obsolete) a plump young person or child while hub is lifting.As a verb fub
is (obsolete) to put off by trickery; to cheat.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.hub
English
(wikipedia hub)Noun
(en noun)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- (Halliwell)
- a hub in the road