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fibber

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fib  (fb)
n.
An insignificant or childish lie.
intr.v. fibbed, fib·bing, fibs
To tell a fib. See Synonyms at lie2.
[Perhaps from obsolete and dialectal fible-fable, nonsense, reduplication of fable.]
fibber n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fibber - someone who tells lies
fabricator, storyteller
liar, prevaricator - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
Translations
fibber [ˈfɪbəʳ] N → mentirosillo/a m/f
fibber
n (inf) → Flunkerer m (inf), → Schwindler(in) m(f) (inf)
fibber [ˈfɪbəʳ] n (fam) → bugiardo/a
fibber [ˈfɪbəʳ] n (fam) → bugiardo/a


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"Senior Wranglers at Cambridge, not Oxford," said the scholar, with a knowing air; and would probably have been more confidential, but that suddenly there appeared on the cliff in a tax-cart, drawn by a bang-up pony, dressed in white flannel coats, with mother-of-pearl buttons, his friends the Tutbury Pet and the Rottingdean Fibber, with three other gentlemen of their acquaintance, who all saluted poor James there in the carriage as he sate.
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