Fob

·noun A little pocket for a watch.

II. Fob (·vt) To beat; to Maul.

III. Fob (·vt) To cheat; to Trick; to impose on.

fob
A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off so; I will not be thus deceived with false ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to fob off
To delude by a trick.--Johnson. A low word now seldom used, though we have good authority for it. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.