1598. Shakspeare, 2 Henry IV., ii., 1. A hundred mark is a long loan for a poor lone woman to bear, and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and have been fubbed off and fubbed off.
1602. Shakspeare, Othello, IV., 2. I think it is scurvy, and begin to find myself fobbed in it.
1610. Shakspeare, Coriolanus, I., 1. You must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale.
1884. Fortnightly Review, XXXVI., p. 75. In nothing are amateur backers of horses fobbed off by professionals with less than the legitimate odds than in backing double and triple events. [[48]]
1864. The Tramp Exposed, p. 7. A miserable, a job lot of humanity as had ever been fobbed off on a defrauded universe.
To gut a fob, verb. phr. (old).—To pick pockets. Cf., Fob, verbal sense 1. For synonyms, see Prig.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib’s Memorial, 1. Diddling your subjects, and gutting their fobs.
Fobus, subs. (old).—An opprobrious epithet.
1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, II., 1. Ay, you old fobus.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable.