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This fib was accompanied by an exorbitant blush.
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- noun An insignificant or childish lie.
- 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
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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 Brontë and Her Circle -
This fib was accompanied by an exorbitant blush.
— Louisa Pallant - But when he had bought it and the fib was thrown in his teeth, he laughed heartily, and asked whether men had so lost their senses as not to be aware that a prudent father of a family would deny an intended purchase rather than raise the price of the article against himselfâ â” Noctes Atticae, xii., — The Life of Cicero
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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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- Perhaps from obsolete and dialectal fible-fable, nonsense, reduplication of fable.
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