Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to phub
Participle: phubbed
Gerund: phubbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | phub |
| you | phub |
| he;she;it | phubs |
| we | phub |
| you | phub |
| they | phub |
Perfect
| I | have phubbed |
| you | have phubbed |
| he;she;it | has phubbed |
| we | have phubbed |
| you | have phubbed |
| they | have phubbed |
Past
| I | phubbed |
| you | phubbed |
| he;she;it | phubbed |
| we | phubbed |
| you | phubbed |
| they | phubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had phubbed |
| you | had phubbed |
| he;she;it | had phubbed |
| we | had phubbed |
| you | had phubbed |
| they | had phubbed |
Future
| I | will phub |
| you | will phub |
| he;she;it | will phub |
| we | will phub |
| you | will phub |
| they | will phub |
Future Perfect
| I | will have phubbed |
| you | will have phubbed |
| he;she;it | will have phubbed |
| we | will have phubbed |
| you | will have phubbed |
| they | will have phubbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | phub |
| you | phub |
| he;she;it | phub |
| we | phub |
| you | phub |
| they | phub |
Perfect
| I | have phubbed |
| you | have phubbed |
| he;she;it | have phubbed |
| we | have phubbed |
| you | have phubbed |
| they | have phubbed |
Imperfect
| I | phubbed |
| you | phubbed |
| he;she;it | phubbed |
| we | phubbed |
| you | phubbed |
| they | phubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had phubbed |
| you | had phubbed |
| he;she;it | had phubbed |
| we | had phubbed |
| you | had phubbed |
| they | had phubbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would phub |
| you | would phub |
| he;she;it | would phub |
| we | would phub |
| you | would phub |
| they | would phub |
Perfect
| I | would have phubbed |
| you | would have phubbed |
| he;she;it | would have phubbed |
| we | would have phubbed |
| you | would have phubbed |
| they | would have phubbed |
Imperative
| you | phub |
| we | Let's phub |
| you | phub |
Verbs conjugated like 'phub'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'phub'
phut,
pub,
blub,
bub,
chib,
chud,
chug,
chum,
chut,
club,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency in a brainstorming session in collaboration with
2. the Macquarie Dictionary and a group of selected wordsmiths; subsequently widely promoted by the McCann agency.
Sample Sentences
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Phubbing has been theorized to provoke conflict in romantic relationships because the partner being phubbed feels unimportant and deprioritized compared to the digital content delivered through their partner's mobile phone. [2018, Zizi Papacharissi, editor, A Networked Self and Love, Routledge, →ISBN:]
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Individuals who were phubbed during a conversation, felt less valued, less close, and less important to the individual who phubbed them. [2022, Lambert Deckers, Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental, Routledge, →ISBN:]