fib
- a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- to tell a fib.
Origin of fib
Synonym study
Related Words for fibbing
plant, shovel, concoct, fabricate, equivocate, invent, falsify, palter, promote, prevaricate, jiveExamples from the Web for fibbing
Contemporary Examples of fibbing
If the Times or Abramson, or both, is fibbing here, the credibility of the newspaper of record is now suspect.
“They were all adults, at least to the best of my knowledge… Some could have theoretically been fibbing about it,” he said.
Historical Examples of fibbing
The only time women do at all well in fibbing is to each other.
The Gorgeous GirlNalbro Bartley
And that was uttered in such a way as to declare that Mrs. Western had been fibbing.
Kept in the DarkAnthony Trollope
Caroline was fibbing—or, at least, partly so—but Rose had no way of knowing that.
Billie Bradley at Three Towers HallJanet D. Wheeler
As Marjory was not in the habit of fibbing, she didn't know what to say.
The Castaways of Pete's PatchCarroll Watson Rankin
I have no idea of going to the ball, and you would be the belle, if you were to attend; so there was no fibbing, was there?
AloneMarion Harland
fib
- a trivial and harmless lie
- (intr) to tell such a lie
Word Origin for fib
Word Origin and History for fibbing
fib
1680s, from fib (n.). Related: Fibbed; fibbing.
fib
1610s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from fibble-fable "nonsense" (1580s), a reduplication of fable.