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In some senses, fib is marked as informal, archaic, derogatory, offensive, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
fib
/fɪb/
noun 7verb 2
Collocations
1(noun.)
VERB + FIB
tell
My little brother told a fib about eating the last cookie.
Definitions
noun
1
A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Wouldn’t that serve as an excuse, in Boston? I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.
2
A liar.
"Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.
verb
1
To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
noun
1
The fibula.
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Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
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Wouldn’t that serve as an excuse, in Boston? I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.
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"Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.
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Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse.
Wiktionary05
The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.
Wiktionary06
As Biggs and his party arrived, I heard Hawkins say to Berry, "For heaven’s sake, my boy, fib with your right, and mind his left hand!"
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