fib

6 definitions found

fib - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fib \Fib\, v. t.
     To tell a fib to. [R.] --De Quincey.
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  Fib \Fib\, n. [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble-fabble
     nonsense.]
     A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
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           They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. --H.
                                                    James.
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  Fib \Fib\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fibbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Fibbing.]
     To speak falsely. [Colloq.]
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fib - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fib
      n 1: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach";
           "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn:
           fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
      v 1: tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not
           acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

fib - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  FIB
         Forwarding Information Base (router, LAN, Internet)
         

fib - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "fib":
     be untruthful, blague, bouncer, canard, cock-and-bull story,
     concoct, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, equivocation,
     evasiveness, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fairy tale,
     falsehood, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fiction,
     fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, legal fiction,
     lie, lie flatly, little white lie, make up, mendacity, mislead,
     palter, pious fiction, prevaricate, prevarication,
     slight stretching, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, tale,
     tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, trump up,
     trumped-up story, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, yarn