Synonyms of the word fib


FIBLIE - PREVARICATION - STORY - TALE - TARADIDDLE - TARRADIDDLE

fib

  • n. (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
  • n. (informal, rare) A liar.
  • v. (intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
  • n. (medicine, informal) Short form of fibula.
  • v. (archaic, thieves' cant, boxing) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat;…

lie

  • v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
  • v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
  • v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
  • v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
  • v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
  • v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
  • n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
  • n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
  • v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
  • n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
  • n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
  • n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

prevarication

  • n. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n. (law, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making…
  • n. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

story

  • n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
  • n. A lie, fiction.
  • n. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
  • n. (obsolete) History.
  • n. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
  • v. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
  • n. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
  • n. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
  • n. (typography) Alternative form of storey.

tale

  • n. (obsolete) Number.
  • n. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language.
  • n. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  • n. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  • n. (rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
  • n. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  • n. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  • n. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story;…
  • n. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
  • n. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
  • n. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark (sense 3.3) of a confidence…
  • v. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  • v. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.
  • n. Alternative form of tael.

taradiddle

  • n. Alternative form of tarradiddle.

tarradiddle

  • n. A trivial lie, a fib.
  • n. Silly talk or writing; humbug.

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