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Definition of Fobbing
1. fob [v] - See also: fob
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fobbing
Literary usage of Fobbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... filled ¡ the office of treasurer of the household, and he is so styled in a
patent of 24 April in that year granting him the manor of fobbing in Essex. ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1901)
"Commrs. of Sowers for fobbing, &,cv Reg.. 11 App. Caa. 456, 457. enacted that
where a jury had presented a person as liable to repair a wall, ..."
3. "Brief Lives" by John Aubrey, Andrew Clark (1898)
"[At fobbing, seven curates dyed within the first ten yeares] ; in sixteen yeares,
six of those that had been his curates at Laindon are dead ; besides those ..."
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