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Fug vs Fub - What's the difference?

fug | fub |

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

  • A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
  • * 1996 , , Oyster , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 4
  • 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.
  • *2004 , , "Boxing Day", National Review , November 8, 2004
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , , Bloomsbury, hardback edition, page 42
  • The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.

    Anagrams

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    fub

    English

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Alternative forms

    * fob

    Verb

    (fubb)
  • (obsolete) To put off by trickery; to cheat.
  • * a.'' 1599 , ,
  • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A plump young person or child.
  • (Smart)
    (Webster 1913)