Fug vs Fub - What's the difference?
fug | fub |
A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
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(obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
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As nouns the difference between fug and fub
is that fug is a heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area while fub is a plump young person or child.As a verb fub is
to put off by trickery; to cheat.fug
English
Noun
- On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
- The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.
- The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.
Anagrams
* ----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.