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say it: fib
fib is a noun and verb meaning "a trivial lie". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a trivial lie
“he told a fib about eating his spinach”
“how can I stop my child from telling stories?”
tell a relatively insignificant lie
“Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fib come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.