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# fibbing

«fibbing» in Mova's school dictionary: **telling small lies, usually about unimportant things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) Fibbing is telling small lies, usually about unimportant things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#m1)

2) A fibber is someone who tells fibs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fibbing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fibbing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.