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fib

noun
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(informal)
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  1. a lie, usually one that is not important谎言；（无关紧要的）小谎，瞎话
    • Stop telling fibs.别再撒谎了。🔊🔊
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + fib
    • tell
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    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.

fib

verb
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[intransitive] (informal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they fib
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he / she / it fibs
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past simple fibbed
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past participle fibbed
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-ing form fibbing
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  1. to tell a lie, usually about something that is not important撒谎；说瞎话
    • Come on, don't fib! Where were you really last night?得了吧，不要撒谎了！昨夜你到底在哪儿？🔊🔊
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.