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fib n. 小谎,一击,打
vi. 撒小谎
vt. 一击,打 小谎,一击,打撒小谎一击,打 fib n 1: a trivial lie; " he told a fib about eating his spinach"; " how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [ synonym: { fib}, { story}, { tale}, { tarradiddle}, { taradiddle}] v 1: tell a relatively insignificant lie; " Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don' t call it lying" Fib \ Fib\, n. [ Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble- fabble nonsense.] A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically. [ 1913 Webster] They are very serious; they don' t tell fibs. -- H. James. [ 1913 Webster]
Fib \ Fib\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Fibbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Fibbing}.] To speak falsely. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster]
Fib \ Fib\, v. t. To tell a fib to. [ R.] -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] 52 Moby Thesaurus words for " fib": be untruthful, blague, bouncer, canard, cock- and- bull story, concoct, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, equivocation, evasiveness, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fairy tale, falsehood, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half- truth, legal fiction, lie, lie flatly, little white lie, make up, mendacity, mislead, palter, pious fiction, prevaricate, prevarication, slight stretching, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, trump up, trumped- up story, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, yarn |
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