Crossword clues for fobbed
fobbed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fob \Fob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fobbing.] [Cf.Fop.]
To beat; to maul. [Obs.]
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To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
--Shak.To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people."
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastfob)
WordNet
n. a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch [syn: watch pocket]
an adornment that hangs from a watch chain
short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest [syn: watch chain, watch guard]
v. deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" [syn: trick, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on]
See fob
Usage examples of "fobbed".
Well, of course they’d be vengeful, considering how they’d been fobbed off.
Ever since then I have been passed from hand to hand within the firm, like some ornate silver teapot fobbed off on each new generation as a wedding gift, but that nobody ever uses.
I had to dress, of course, and then creep out of the house, to the stables, and by the time I'd harnessed a horse to my gig, and fobbed off Sowerby—he's one of our grooms, and what must he do but come out in his nightshirt to see who was stealing a horse and carriage!
To have fobbed your most distinguished suitor off on to your cousin will very likely have made him your enemy for life!
I could picture myself in the cool arched corridors of the Union 'Buildings in Pretoria being shifted -- ever more impatiently -- from one civil servant to another, fobbed off with evasive, ever-less polite answers to a man they would consider a crackpot -- unless.
He needed to know where to find Pie 'oh' pah, and he wasn't going to be fobbed off with excuses.
He'd been content to be fobbed off with hints and equivocation, and he might have continued to be content, if he hadn't been irritated by the zarzi and the lateness of the L'Himby train, bored and ready for an argument.
I feel bad that I sort of fobbed off the thing when Crossan got to me, and now it’s too late.
Of course, R'gul had fobbed their new Weyrwoman off with the convenient excuse that Jora had been an incompetent and neurotic Weyrwoman, allowing her dragon queen to gorge unrestrained.
I have been fobbed off, lied to, even as the Regent, the nobles, the Church, even, put aside our advice and ignore our warnings.
Depend upon it, she has fobbed him off—if it was necessary, which I don’t at all believe!
If Rotherham is indeed on his way to Bath, he will have to be fobbed off, you know.
Hendred, upon arrival in Cavendish Square, announced her intention of instantly retiring to bed, she said, with more amusement than concern: “Yes, if you wish, ma’am, but I warn you I am not to be so easily fobbed off!