Fib \Fib\, v. t.
To tell a fib to. [R.] --De Quincey.
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Fib \Fib\, n. [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble-fabble
nonsense.]
A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
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They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. --H.
James.
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Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fibbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fibbing.]
To speak falsely. [Colloq.]
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fib
n : a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: story,
tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
v : tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not
acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"
[also: fibbing, fibbed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "fib":
be untruthful, blague, bouncer, canard, cock-and-bull story,
concoct, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, equivocation,
evasiveness, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fairy tale,
falsehood, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fiction,
fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, legal fiction,
lie, lie flatly, little white lie, make up, mendacity, mislead,
palter, pious fiction, prevaricate, prevarication,
slight stretching, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, tale,
tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, trump up,
trumped-up story, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, yarn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
FIB
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Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest
approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
When David said: "All men are liars," Dave,
Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief.
Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief
By proof that even himself was not a slave
To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave
Had been of all her servitors the chief
Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf
Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave.
No, David served not Naked Truth when he
Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race;
Nor did he hit the nail upon the head:
For reason shows that it could never be,
And the facts contradict him to his face.
Men are not liars all, for some are dead.
Bartle Quinker
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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