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Fibbing

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear wordnet
  3. 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.'"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fib form-of, gerund, participle, present

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