fib
noun
[ fɪb ]
• a lie, typically an unimportant one.
• "why did you tell him such a dreadful fib?"
Similar:
lie,
untruth,
falsehood,
made-up story,
trumped-up story,
invention,
fake news,
fabrication,
deception,
piece of fiction,
fiction,
falsification,
fairy story/tale,
cock and bull story,
(little) white lie,
half-truth,
exaggeration,
departure from the truth,
alternative fact,
tall story,
tall tale,
whopper,
pork pie,
porky pie,
porky,
terminological inexactitude,
fib
verb
• tell a fib.
Similar:
lie,
tell a fib,
tell a lie,
invent a story,
make up a story,
dissemble,
dissimulate,
pretend,
depart from the truth,
exaggerate,
stretch the truth,
pull someone's leg,
lie through one's teeth,
con,
kid,
be economical with the truth,
bullshit,
Opposite:
tell the truth,
Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.
