fob

See also: FOB, F.O.B., F. O. B., -fob, and -fób

English

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From German Low German Fobke (“pocket”) or German [Term?] (East Prussian dialect) Fuppe (“pocket”).

fob (plural fobs)

A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, Windsor Prophecy:
  With a saint at his chin and a seal at his fob.
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:
  As soon as they had confined my arms they left me, and remembering the bank-notes which I had in my fob, I began to fear they had come to the knowledge of this circumstance […] .
A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
(see usage notes) A small ornament attached to such a chain.
A hand-held electronic device that can be used as a remote control or as a key to unlock motor cars, doors, etc.

little pocket near waistline — see watch pocket

chain or ribbon

ornament

remote control for locking and unlocking a vehicle

Danish: fjernbetjening (da) c (til bil eller lignende)
Finnish: kauko-ohjain
French: bip (fr) m
German: Funkschlüssel m
Russian: брело́к дистанцио́нного управле́ния m (brelók distanciónnovo upravlénija)
Swedish: fjärrnyckel c, bilnyckel (sv) c

From German foppen (“to mock”).

fob (third-person singular simple present fobs, present participle fobbing, simple past and past participle fobbed)

(transitive, archaic) To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
  I think it is scurvy, and begin to find myself fobbed in it.
(transitive, archaic) To beat; to maul.

To cheat, to trick

Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, editors (1897), Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 2, page 2146

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