fib

[fib]

noun

1. a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.

verb (used without object)

fibbed, fibbing 

1. to tell a fib.

fib

/ fɪb /

noun

1. a trivial and harmless lie

verb

1. (intr) to tell such a lie

Other Word Forms

• fibber noun
• fibster noun
• unfibbing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fib¹

1560–70; short for fibble-fable nonsense, gradational compound based on fable

Word History and Origins

Origin of fib¹

C17: perhaps from fibble-fable an unlikely story; see _fable

Synonym Study

See falsehood.

Example Sentences

And a few moments later a voice next to us describes another case: "Six-year-old girl, she was hit by an electric bike, she has a closed tib/fib fracture."

From BBC

"Perhaps the starkest," Dr Rogers said, were her attempts to explain the cancer fib.

From BBC

But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.

From Los Angeles Times

Her living voice — her wit and insecurities, her vanities and fibs, the whole of her mind as she herself came to know it.

From Salon

This country tells itself a lot of fibs about how good and great it is — but there are people who don’t just believe them, but devote their lives to making them come true.

From Salon