fib

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  1. noun An insignificant or childish lie.
  2. intransitive verb To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie2.

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  • Judge Erle must, I think, have made up his story expressly for a hoax; the other fib is amazing—so circumstantial! —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
  • Judge Erle must, I think, have made up his story expressly for a hoax; the other fib is amazing--so circumstantial! —  Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
  • This fib was accompanied by an exorbitant blush. —  Louisa Pallant
  • Also the short term fib is above here at —  FXstreet.com
  • In both cases, everyone fibs, it's just a case of how big the fib is and whether the person being fibbed to is really fooled. —  WalesOnline - Home
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Perhaps from obsolete and dialectal fible-fable, nonsense, reduplication of fable.

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  1. Of dial. origin; prob. an abbreviation form of * fibble or fible, a weakened form of fable, appearing in English dial, fible-fable, nonsense: see fable, n.
  2. from fib, n.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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