| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fib.[Websters]
2. To have hoaxed, gagged or fiddled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be storied or fabled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be pouched or podded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have fudged or trashed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be humoured or spirited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have joked, larked or tricked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be battered or monetized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have kittened or tagged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be shocked.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fib.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fib) | 1. Tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying".[Wordnet]. 2. To speak falsely.[Websters]. 3. To tell a fib to.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: fibbing, fibbed, fibs, fibber, fibbers, fibbingly and fibbedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FIBBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1834. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fib
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. Bartle Quinker Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Noah Webster | [Noun] A lie or falsehood; a word used among children and the vulgar, as a softer expression than lie.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | Fib An attendant on Queen Mab in Drayton's Nymphidia. Fib, meaning a falsehood, is the Latin fabula, a fable. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Security | Fingerprint Identification Byte. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (informal) A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. You've been telling fibs again, haven't you?. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. (references) | 3: [Etymology 2] (medicine, informal) Short form of fibula. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Specialty Expressions: fib
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To fib | Slang in 1811 | TO FIB. To beat. Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse. CANT.--A fib is also a tiny lie. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
Abbreviations & Acronyms: fib
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FIB | Dutch | Voorwaarts identicatiebit | Electrical Engineering | |
| FIB | English | Federal Information Bank | N/A | |
| FIB | French | Bloc d'information rapide | N/A | |
| FIB | Italian | Bit indicatore in avanti | Electrical Engineering | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
Topics by Level of Interest: fib | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space! | 11 | Fib | 8 | |
| Fib | 8 | Fib (poetry) | 6 | |
| Fib (poetry) | 6 | Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space! | 11 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
