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单词 fibbed
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fibbed in British English

past participle of verb, past tense of verb
fib
 

fib in British English

(fɪb)
noun
1. 
a trivial and harmless lie
verbWord forms: fibs, fibbing or fibbed
2. (intransitive)
to tell such a lie
Derived forms
fibber (ˈfibber)
noun
Word origin
C17: perhaps from fibble-fable an unlikely story; see fable

Examples of 'fibbed' in a sentence
fibbed

You can say that you genuinely forgot, or got muddled up or fibbed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And to those we think fibbed to us, we will keep on digging.
The Sun (2014)
Many of them have fibbed to their families about where they are.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
So we fibbed a bit about how much it costs us to borrow money?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A quarter of these fibbed because they feared the diagnosis.
The Sun (2013)
I'd never heard of them but fibbed.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Around 14 per cent fibbed about noise disturbance and nine per cent claimed they had developed food poisoning.
The Sun (2016)
When the results were studied by experts, they found many of the dieters fibbed about how much they were eating.
The Sun (2008)
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