fib

a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood: He meant no harm; it was only a fib.
Not to be confused with:fabrication – manufacture; something fabricated; an untruthful statement: His alibi was a total fabrication.

fib

F0099000 (fĭb)n. An insignificant or childish lie.intr.v. fibbed, fib·bing, fibs To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie².

[Perhaps from obsolete and dialectal fible-fable, nonsense, reduplication of fable.]

fib′ber n.

fib

(fɪb) na trivial and harmless lievb, fibs, fibbing or fibbed (intr) to tell such a lie[C17: perhaps from fibble-fable an unlikely story; see fable] ˈfibber n

fib

(fɪb)

n., v. fibbed, fib•bing. n. 1. a small or trivial lie. v.i. 2. to tell a fib. [1560–70; fibble-fable nonsense] fib′ber, fib′ster, n.

fib

Past participle: fibbed
Gerund: fibbing

Imperative
fib
fib

Present
I fib
you fib
he/she/it fibs
we fib
you fib
they fib

Preterite
I fibbed
you fibbed
he/she/it fibbed
we fibbed
you fibbed
they fibbed

Present Continuous
I am fibbing
you are fibbing
he/she/it is fibbing
we are fibbing
you are fibbing
they are fibbing

Present Perfect
I have fibbed
you have fibbed
he/she/it has fibbed
we have fibbed
you have fibbed
they have fibbed

Past Continuous
I was fibbing
you were fibbing
he/she/it was fibbing
we were fibbing
you were fibbing
they were fibbing

Past Perfect
I had fibbed
you had fibbed
he/she/it had fibbed
we had fibbed
you had fibbed
they had fibbed

Future
I will fib
you will fib
he/she/it will fib
we will fib
you will fib
they will fib

Future Perfect
I will have fibbed
you will have fibbed
he/she/it will have fibbed
we will have fibbed
you will have fibbed
they will have fibbed

Future Continuous
I will be fibbing
you will be fibbing
he/she/it will be fibbing
we will be fibbing
you will be fibbing
they will be fibbing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been fibbing
you have been fibbing
he/she/it has been fibbing
we have been fibbing
you have been fibbing
they have been fibbing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been fibbing
you will have been fibbing
he/she/it will have been fibbing
we will have been fibbing
you will have been fibbing
they will have been fibbing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been fibbing
you had been fibbing
he/she/it had been fibbing
we had been fibbing
you had been fibbing
they had been fibbing

Conditional
I would fib
you would fib
he/she/it would fib
we would fib
you would fib
they would fib

Past Conditional
I would have fibbed
you would have fibbed
he/she/it would have fibbed
we would have fibbed
you would have fibbed
they would have fibbed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fib - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"taradiddle, tarradiddle, tale, storylie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truthcock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance - an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
Verb	1.	fib - tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"lie - tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"

fib

noun1. lie, story, fiction, untruth, whopper (informal), porky (Brit. slang), pork pie (Brit. slang), white lie, prevarication She told innocent fibs.verb1. lie, invent, fabricate, misrepresent, falsify, tell a lie, prevaricate, perjure, equivocate, dissimulate, tell untruths, forswear yourself He laughed when I accused him of fibbing.Quotations
"fib: a lie that has not cut its teeth" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]

fib

nounAn untrue declaration:canard, cock-and-bull story, falsehood, falsity, fiction, inveracity, lie, misrepresentation, misstatement, prevarication, story, tale, untruth.Informal: fish story, tall tale.Slang: whopper.verbTo make untrue declarations:falsify, forswear, lie, prevaricate.Law: perjure.

Translations

小谎撒小谎

fib

(fib) noun an unimportant lie. to tell fibs.小谎 verb – past tense, past participle fibbed – to tell a fib. He fibbed about his age.撒小谎

FIB

Acronym	Definition
FIB➣Focused Ion Beam
FIB➣Forwarding Information Base
FIB➣Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
FIB➣Fiber Interface Board
FIB➣Fast Internal Bus Buffer
FIB➣Flume Ille Badminton (French badminton club)
FIB➣Fill-In-The-Blank
FIB➣Faisal Islamic Bank (various locations)
FIB➣Fédération de l'Industrie du Béton (French: Concrete Industry Federation)
FIB➣Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona
FIB➣Fish in A Barrel
FIB➣Federazione Italiana Bocce (Italian Bocce Federation)
FIB➣Flying Inflatable Boat
FIB➣Forward Indicator Bit (SS7 MTP Layer 2)
FIB➣Fires Brigade
FIB➣Federal Investigation Bureau (Grand Theft Auto IV)
FIB➣Fast Information Block
FIB➣Fraud Intelligence Bureau (UK)
FIB➣Freshwater Invertebrate Biology (journal)
FIB➣Fédération Internationale de Boules
FIB➣Flight Information Bulletin
FIB➣Frequency-Invariant Beamformer
FIB➣Foundation for Internet Begging
FIB➣Fishing-in-Balance Index (marine ecosystems)
FIB➣Friendly Illinois Brethren/Buddy (polite form of a derogatory nickname for Illinois residents in Wisconsin)
FIB➣Fields by Information Blending
FIB➣Forwarding Information Block
FIB➣File Interface Block
FIB➣Field Information Bulletin (Unisys)
FIB➣Frame Insertion Board

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noun lie

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verb lie

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noun an untrue declaration

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verb to make untrue declarations

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noun a trivial lie

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verb tell a relatively insignificant lie

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