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Definition of fib in English: fibnounPlural fibs fɪbfɪb A lie, typically an unimportant one. why did you tell him such a dreadful fib? Example sentencesExamples - He justified the fib by saying the made-up support would be more credible than self-promotion alone.
- Existence in the real world is just not possible without an occasional fib or an expertly timed falsehood.
- Sailors have long reported sightings of these waves, but reports had mainly been dismissed either as exaggeration or outright fibs.
- And this is what truly makes running the piece rank propaganda down here, rather than just plain old fibs and/or misinformation.
- It's one thing to build a case on fibs only you know to be lies.
- And a lie from the White House - or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number - can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.
- Although most falsehoods detected in this study were inconsequential, fibs do have financial implications.
- And, you know, what it all boils down to is just being a genuine nice guy and never get caught telling fibs.
- With so many fibs and half-truths floating around, it was no wonder that women had trouble making up their minds.
- Oh, and no stories or fibs, not even little white ones!
- That means smear campaigns, dirty politics and lots and lots of fibs.
- Is a fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth?
- This is backed up by an overwhelming 96 per cent of British women who admit they lie, with almost half saying they tell little white fibs most days.
- These little white fibs give me an uneasy feeling, and I begin to wonder why the shop would lie, when I am here to help save them thousands of dollars in fines.
- True, he made some mistakes and he told a few fibs, they tell me - but he really means well and he intends to fix things and, above all, he has a plan.
- It is such a common fib because it is such a comforting fib.
- Often enough, such fibs are harmless and trivial.
- If we can't allow Chevalier her little fibs, we might as well ban all historical fiction.
- There is a manuscript note by another official which comments on this minute; it refers to ‘a certain old fashioned reluctance to tell a whopping fib, or even a little fib, depending on the number of permanent inhabitants’.
- Even though he'd published all those dreadful fibs.
Synonyms lie, untruth, falsehood, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, fabrication, deception, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, fairy story/tale, cock and bull story (little) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, departure from the truth informal tall story, tall tale, whopper British rhyming slang pork pie, porky pie, porky humorous terminological inexactitude
verbfibs, fibbed, fibbing fɪbfɪb [no object]Tell a fib. Example sentencesExamples - However, in our one-to-one yesterday, sans-manager, it soon became apparent that she was fibbing big-style.
- But a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we're online than when we're talking in person.
- And publicists, eager to please their clients, are still fibbing to keep their starlets young.
- Unless, you know, they're fibbing a little and don't really have any confidence in their actions at all?
- I sensed he may have fibbed a bit, but I'll let you be the judge of that.
- On the other hand, if you give two differing accounts of something, it's reasonable for folks to wonder which time you were telling the truth and which time you were fibbing.
- John Jay Ray says scientists are fibbing about the Greenhouse Effect.
- A Bucks source with no reason to fib claims there is no truth to the report SF Glenn Robinson is on the market.
- I would be fibbing if I didn't say at times that was frustrating.
- Seth wasn't the only person allowed to fib every now and then.
- I do admit that I fibbed a little and told her that I was a fireman instead of an ice cream man, but both professions involve driving a truck into neighborhoods and saving lives, so as far as I'm concerned it was a white lie.
- Perhaps he was fibbing when he said credibility was Salon's most important asset.
- Besides, you two would have given away our true intentions, so I fibbed a little, is that a crime?
- But we also ought to have some sources that won't fib or sugar-coat to appease their key demographic group.
- ‘Thanks,’ Sandra fibbed, trying not to show her disappointment as she looked at the roses.
- That may explain a lot - the peculiar mindset giving rise to her uneven recent work and, in turn, perhaps even that guy problem about which her friend fibbed so gently.
- You said it and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing.
- By the end of the apprenticeship, war had broken out and Archie volunteered for the Royal Air Force, fibbing a little about his age, so that he could get in.
- I, by contrast, am fascinated by weather and believe that people claiming not to be are fibbing.
- I had to snap her out of it somehow, so I fibbed a little.
Synonyms lie, tell a fib, tell a lie, invent a story, make up a story, dissemble, dissimulate, pretend, depart from the truth exaggerate, stretch the truth pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg informal lie through one's teeth, con, kid humorous be economical with the truth, tell a terminological inexactitude vulgar slang bullshit
Derivatives noun ˈfɪbəˈfɪbər Tommy, who has the reputation as a fibber, can't get his parents or the police to believe him. Example sentencesExamples - Britain is a nation of fibbers - and men tell more white lies than women - according to a new report.
- There are fibbers, fabricators and feckless fabulists.
- So she's a fibber to boot but she still seems nicer than lots of people who tell you how wonderful they are.
- He's been made out to be a fibber - almost even a criminal - when, in fact, he is one of the most honest people I know.
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable 'nonsense', reduplication of fable. fabulous from Late Middle English: The Latin word fabula ‘story’, ultimately from fari, meaning ‘to speak’, is the source of both fabulous and fable (Middle English), and perhaps of fib (mid 16th century), which may be a shortening of the obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’. A fable is a short story which conveys a moral, and is particularly associated with the legendary 6th-century bc Greek storyteller Aesop, whose fables have given the language many expressions (see, for example, at chicken). In early use fabulous meant ‘known through fable’ or ‘not based on fact’. The idea of ‘astonishing’ led to it being understood as both ‘beyond belief’ and ‘wonderful, marvellous’. As the 60s started to swing, fabulous was shortened to fab, and the Beatles were nicknamed the Fab Four, while in the 1990s TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous (sometimes shortened to Ab Fab), ‘Fabulous, sweetie!’ was the standard encouragement. See also fate
Rhymes bib, crib, dib, glib, jib, lib, nib, rib, sib, snib, squib Definition of fib in US English: fibnounfibfɪb A lie, typically an unimportant one. parents told little white fibs about out-of-wedlock births Example sentencesExamples - Even though he'd published all those dreadful fibs.
- Sailors have long reported sightings of these waves, but reports had mainly been dismissed either as exaggeration or outright fibs.
- True, he made some mistakes and he told a few fibs, they tell me - but he really means well and he intends to fix things and, above all, he has a plan.
- Is a fib really a fib if the teller is unaware that he is uttering an untruth?
- He justified the fib by saying the made-up support would be more credible than self-promotion alone.
- There is a manuscript note by another official which comments on this minute; it refers to ‘a certain old fashioned reluctance to tell a whopping fib, or even a little fib, depending on the number of permanent inhabitants’.
- This is backed up by an overwhelming 96 per cent of British women who admit they lie, with almost half saying they tell little white fibs most days.
- These little white fibs give me an uneasy feeling, and I begin to wonder why the shop would lie, when I am here to help save them thousands of dollars in fines.
- Oh, and no stories or fibs, not even little white ones!
- Although most falsehoods detected in this study were inconsequential, fibs do have financial implications.
- Often enough, such fibs are harmless and trivial.
- Existence in the real world is just not possible without an occasional fib or an expertly timed falsehood.
- It's one thing to build a case on fibs only you know to be lies.
- If we can't allow Chevalier her little fibs, we might as well ban all historical fiction.
- It is such a common fib because it is such a comforting fib.
- And this is what truly makes running the piece rank propaganda down here, rather than just plain old fibs and/or misinformation.
- And a lie from the White House - or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number - can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.
- With so many fibs and half-truths floating around, it was no wonder that women had trouble making up their minds.
- That means smear campaigns, dirty politics and lots and lots of fibs.
- And, you know, what it all boils down to is just being a genuine nice guy and never get caught telling fibs.
Synonyms lie, untruth, falsehood, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, fake news, fabrication, deception, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, fairy story, fairy tale, cock and bull story
verbfibfɪb [no object]Tell an unimportant lie. Example sentencesExamples - But we also ought to have some sources that won't fib or sugar-coat to appease their key demographic group.
- On the other hand, if you give two differing accounts of something, it's reasonable for folks to wonder which time you were telling the truth and which time you were fibbing.
- Perhaps he was fibbing when he said credibility was Salon's most important asset.
- I do admit that I fibbed a little and told her that I was a fireman instead of an ice cream man, but both professions involve driving a truck into neighborhoods and saving lives, so as far as I'm concerned it was a white lie.
- I, by contrast, am fascinated by weather and believe that people claiming not to be are fibbing.
- But a Cornell professor recently claimed to have established the truth of a curious proposition: We fib less frequently when we're online than when we're talking in person.
- Besides, you two would have given away our true intentions, so I fibbed a little, is that a crime?
- ‘Thanks,’ Sandra fibbed, trying not to show her disappointment as she looked at the roses.
- By the end of the apprenticeship, war had broken out and Archie volunteered for the Royal Air Force, fibbing a little about his age, so that he could get in.
- That may explain a lot - the peculiar mindset giving rise to her uneven recent work and, in turn, perhaps even that guy problem about which her friend fibbed so gently.
- I had to snap her out of it somehow, so I fibbed a little.
- I would be fibbing if I didn't say at times that was frustrating.
- You said it and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing.
- I sensed he may have fibbed a bit, but I'll let you be the judge of that.
- Seth wasn't the only person allowed to fib every now and then.
- John Jay Ray says scientists are fibbing about the Greenhouse Effect.
- And publicists, eager to please their clients, are still fibbing to keep their starlets young.
- A Bucks source with no reason to fib claims there is no truth to the report SF Glenn Robinson is on the market.
- Unless, you know, they're fibbing a little and don't really have any confidence in their actions at all?
- However, in our one-to-one yesterday, sans-manager, it soon became apparent that she was fibbing big-style.
Synonyms lie, tell a fib, tell a lie, invent a story, make up a story, dissemble, dissimulate, pretend, depart from the truth
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable. |