Fibbing
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 The telling of a lie. informal
"Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with […]"
- 2 a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear wordnet
- 3 Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating. archaic
"And so did Nick, whom sometimes there would come on / A sort of fear his spouse might knock his head off, / Demolish half his teeth, or drive a rib in, / She shone so much in 'facers' and in 'fibbing.'"
- 1 present participle and gerund of fib form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with […]"
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