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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fib/fɪb/

▶noun a trivial lie. ▶verb (fibs, fibbing, fibbed) tell a fib.

– derivatives
fibber noun.

– origin C16: perh. a shortening of obs. fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.

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