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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. fr.

fable

; cf. Prov. E.

fibble-fabble

nonsense.]

A falsehood; a lie; – used euphemistically.

They are very serious; they don’t tell

fibs

H. James.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Fibbed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Fibbing

To speak falsely.

[Colloq.]

Verb.

To tell a fib to.

[R.]

De Quincey.

Noun.

[See Fable.] A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.

Verb.

To lie; to speak falsely.