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Meaning of Fibbing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. The telling of a lie.
  2. Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.

Equivalents

العربية الضّرب

Examples

“Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with […]”
“And so did Nick, whom sometimes there would come on / A sort of fear his spouse might knock his head off, / Demolish half his teeth, or drive a rib in, / She shone so much in 'facers' and in 'fibbing.'”
“15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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