Meaning

4 senses
  1. (informal)A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.

    Flunkerei, Schwindelei, Fabulation

    вы́думкаvýdumka, до́мыселdómysel, непра́вдаneprávda

    a trivial lie

  2. (informal, rare)A liar.

  3. (informal)The fibula.

  4. (neologism)A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. That's a fib.

    Це брехня. — deniko

  2. Go tell those fibs to someone else.

    deErzähl diese Schwindeleien doch jemand anders. — Tickler

  3. To call that fabrication a fib would be a criminal understatement.

  4. He's telling fibs again.

    deEr flunkert schon wieder. — brunoalbinus

  5. He's fibbing again.

    deEr flunkert schon wieder. — brunoalbinus

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a more or less inconsequential lie:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a more or less inconsequential lie:

Origin

Unknown. Probably from fable; compare fible-fable (“nonsense”). Clipping of fibula. Shor

Unknown. Probably from fable; compare fible-fable (“nonsense”).

Clipping of fibula.

Short for Fibonacci.

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