| 单词 | fib |
| 释义 | fib (once / 4996 pages) nv A fib is a small lie. If you think your friend's haircut looks strange, but you tell her you love it, it's a fib. When you tell a fib, you fib. The thing that distinguishes a fib from a lie is that a fib isn't terribly important — it's minor or petty. You might fib to protect someone's feelings or to save yourself a long explanation about exactly why you're late to work. The origin of the word fib is uncertain, but it may come from fibble-fable, or "nonsense," which in turn comes from fable. WORD FAMILYfib: fibbed, fibber, fibbing, fibs+/fibber: fibbers/fibbing: fibbings USAGE EXAMPLESHe was caught in a fib about a drunken encounter during the Rio Olympics in August. Seattle Times(Dec 15, 2016) By the fall of 2014, I was fibbing two or three times a week. Washington Post(Nov 04, 2016) Those spectators on Lafayette who may have sweetly fibbed when they said you looked awesome? New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) 1n a trivial lie he told a fib about eating his spinach Syn|Hypo|Hyper story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dance an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse lie, prevarication a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth 2v tell a relatively insignificant lie Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying Hyper lie tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive |
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