5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fib \Fib\, n. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fibbed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Fibbing}.]
To speak falsely. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fib \Fib\, v. t.
To tell a fib to [R.] --De Quincey.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fib
n : a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {story},
{tale}, {tarradiddle}, {taradiddle}]
v : tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not
acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest
approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.
When David said: "All men are liars," Dave,
Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief.
Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief
By proof that even himself was not a slave
To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave
Had been of all her servitors the chief
Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf
Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave.
No David served not Naked Truth when he
Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race;
Nor did he hit the nail upon the head:
For reason shows that it could never be
And the facts contradict him to his face.
Men are not liars all for some are dead.
Bartle Quinker
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