fib

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small or relatively harmless lie

   He told a fib about missing the bus because he was embarrassed about oversleeping.

2. 2
   verb

   to tell a small or relatively harmless lie

   The child admitted that she had fibbed about finishing her homework.

The origin is uncertain. Fib may be related to the older reduplicative expression fible-fable, 'nonsense,' and ultimately to fable. It has denoted a minor or excusable lie since the seventeenth century.

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