fibber


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fib

 (fĭb)
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.]
fib′ber n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fibber - someone who tells lies
fabricator, storyteller
liar, prevaricator - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
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fibber

noun
One who tells lies:
fabricator, fabulist, falsifier, liar, prevaricator.
Informal: storyteller.
Law: perjurer.
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fibber

[ˈfɪbəʳ] N → mentirosillo/a m/f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fibber

n (inf) → Flunkerer m (inf), → Schwindler(in) m(f) (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fibber

[ˈfɪbəʳ] n (fam) → bugiardo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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The fact is, that on the Southampton coach, the day previous, James Crawley had met the Tutbury Pet, who was coming to Brighton to make a match with the Rottingdean Fibber; and enchanted by the Pet's conversation, had passed the evening in company with that scientific man and his friends, at the inn in question.
"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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