fibbing

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Verb

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fibbing

  1. present participle and gerund of fib

Noun

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fibbing (plural fibbings)

  1. (informal) The telling of a lie.
    • 1893, Methodist Review, volume 75, page 957:
      Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with []
  2. (archaic, boxing) Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
    • 1837, Barham, The Ghost:
      And so did Nick, whom sometimes there would come on / A sort of fear his spouse might knock his head off, / Demolish half his teeth, or drive a rib in, / She shone so much in 'facers' and in 'fibbing.'
    • 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17:
      15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.