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# fibbing

verb form (fib, fibs, fibbed, fibbing); noun fibber

«fibbing» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (informal) Fibbing is telling small lies, usually about unimportant things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#m1)
2. A fibber is someone who tells fibs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#m2)

### In the lessons

Everyday and playground talk; honesty lessons. «Fib» sounds softer than «lie» but it is still not telling the truth. Phrases: stop fibbing, are you fibbing?, a little fib.

### Examples

- Are you fibbing about eating your vegetables? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x1)
- He was fibbing when he said the dog ate his homework. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x2)
- Stop fibbing and tell me what happened. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x3)
- I caught my brother fibbing about brushing his teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x4)
- She admitted she had been fibbing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x5)
- Fibbing gets you into more trouble in the end. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#x6)

### Note

Double b: fibbed, fibbing. Informal; in formal writing use «lying». A fib is still a lie, even if small. Not related to «fibre».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fibbing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fibbing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fibbing.html) on Mova free.