Fibbing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fibbing is a noun meaning (informal) The telling of a lie.
Meaning
(informal) The telling of a lie.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of fib
- (archaic, boxing) A repeated strike of an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
Example Sentences
15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.
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 […]
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.'
Word Forms
- fibbings
Synonyms for fibbing
Depending on context, synonyms include paltering.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paltering, fibbery, fabling, fable, flibbergib, fabulation.
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