fib

 
Pronunciation: /fɪb/

noun

  • a lie, typically an unimportant one: why did you tell him such a dreadful fib?

verb (fibs, fibbing, fibbed)

[no object]
  • tell a fib.

Derivatives

fibber

noun

Origin:

mid 16th century: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable 'nonsense', reduplication of fable