fibbery

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

fib +‎ -ery

Noun[edit]

fibbery (usually uncountable, plural fibberies)

  1. The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
    • 2008 April 6, Gretchen Morgenson, “A Road Not Taken by Lenders”, in New York Times[1]:
      Instead, lenders appear to be complicit in the rampant fibbery that is one of the root causes of our continuing mortgage nightmare.