fib
verb/fɪb/
/fɪb/
[intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they fib | /fɪb/ /fɪb/ |
| he / she / it fibs | /fɪbz/ /fɪbz/ |
| past simple fibbed | /fɪbd/ /fɪbd/ |
| past participle fibbed | /fɪbd/ /fɪbd/ |
| -ing form fibbing | /ˈfɪbɪŋ/ /ˈfɪbɪŋ/ |
- to tell a lie, usually about something that is not important
- Come on, don't fib! Where were you really last night?
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.
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