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fobbing
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. (present participle of fob English)
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]
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Wikipedia
Fobbing is a small village in Thurrock, Essex, England and one of Thurrock's traditional (Church of England) parishes. It is located between Basildon and Corringham, and is also close to Stanford-le-Hope.
Fobbing is one of seven conservation areas in Thurrock.
The now quiet village is renowned for its history, which includes being one of the main villages involved with the Peasants' Revolt. On 30 May 1381, the commissioner John Bampton summoned the Fobbing villagers, as well as villagers from Corringham and Stanford, to Brentwood to answer as to why they had not paid tax. The villagers told Bampton that they would give him nothing. Bampton then moved to arrest the villagers. A riot ensued in which the villagers attempted to kill Bampton. Bampton managed to escape to London. Sir Robert Belknap was sent to investigate the incident and to punish the offenders. On 2 June, he was attacked. By this time the violent discontent had spread, and the counties of Essex and Kent were in full revolt. Soon people moved on London in an armed uprising. In 1981 a metal sculpture by B R Coode-Adams was erected as a memorial to the Peasants' Revolt at Fobbing to commemorate the 600th anniversary .
One of the major features of the village is Saint Michael's Church. It is renowned for its historic association with the smuggling trade. Once upon a time the church was near the waterfront of Fobbing Harbour. Smugglers sailed up Fobbing Creek guided by the distinctive church tower but after the great flood of 1 February 1953, the creek and harbour were sealed up by a dyke and drained. Underneath the church are many tunnels which were used by the smugglers in the fourteenth century.
Usage examples of "fobbing".
Fanny had entertained serious thoughts of sending home her barouche, and could not understand the impulse which prompted Serena, morning after morning, to escape from Bath, attended only by her devoted but critical groom, Fobbing, to the surrounding hills.
I should have been in disgrace with Fobbing for a week, had he seen our cavalcade!
Tell old Runcorn that Fobbing will ride over to fetch home my mare in a couple of days’ time, if you please, and arrange for four good horses to be put to half an hour from now.
Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites.
Flavia, however, was long practiced in fobbing people off with vague statements about leads and general lines of inquiry, sugaring the pill with promises of full explanations later.
I suspect a chain of pilfering—some shady European go-between picking them up for a song, forging their provenance, then fobbing them off long-distance on Adelia and pocketing the difference, judging correctly that a rich American—for so he would have tagged her—wouldn’t cotton on.