English-Thai Dictionary

fib

N คำ พูดโกหก เรื่องเล็ก น้อย  คำ พูดโกหก ที่ ไม่ ทำให้ ใคร เดือดร้อน  lie untruth fact truth kam-pud-ko-hok-rueang-lek-noi

 

fib

VI พูดโกหก เล็กๆ  น้อยๆ  lie deceive perjure pud-ko-hok-lek-lek-noi-noi

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIB

n.[See Fable. ] A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.

 

FIB

v.i.To lie; to speak falsely.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FIB

Fib, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. fable; cf. Prov. E. fibble-fabble nonsense. ]

 

Defn: A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically. They are very serious; they don't tell fibs. H. James.

 

FIB

Fib, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fibbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fibbing. ]

 

Defn: To speak falsely. [Colloq. ]

 

FIB

FIB Fib, v. t.

 

Defn: To tell a fib to. [R.] De Quincey.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fib

fib |fib fɪb | ▶noun a lie, typically an unimportant one: parents told little white fibs about out-of-wedlock births. ▶verb ( fibs, fibbing , fibbed ) [ no obj. ] tell an unimportant lie. DERIVATIVES fib ber noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense, ’ reduplication of fable .

 

Oxford Dictionary

fib

fib |fɪb | ▶noun a lie, typically an unimportant one: why did you tell him such a dreadful fib? ▶verb ( fibs, fibbing, fibbed ) [ no obj. ] tell a fib. DERIVATIVES fibber noun ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense ’, reduplication of fable .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fib

fib noun you're telling a fib: lie, untruth, falsehood, made-up story, invention, fabrication, deception, (piece of ) fiction; (little ) white lie, half-truth; informal tall story /tale, whopper. ANTONYMS truth.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fib

fib noun you're telling a fib: lie, untruth, falsehood, made-up story, trumped-up story, invention, fabrication, deception, piece of fiction, fiction, falsification, fairy story /tale, cock and bull story; (little ) white lie, half-truth, exaggeration, departure from the truth; informal tall story, tall tale, whopper; Brit. rhyming slang pork pie, porky pie, porky; humorous terminological inexactitude. ANTONYMS truth, fact. ▶verb she had bunked off school, fibbing about a sore throat: lie, tell a fib, tell a lie, invent a story, make up a story, dissemble, dissimulate, pretend, depart from the truth; exaggerate, stretch the truth; pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg; informal lie through one's teeth, con, kid; humorous be economical with the truth, tell a terminological inexactitude; vulgar slang bullshit. ANTONYMS tell the truth.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fib

fib /fɪb /名詞 C 動詞 ～s ; ～bed ; ～bing 自動詞 ｟くだけた話 ｠(ちょっとした )うそ (をつく ).f í b ber 名詞