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fibbings

fibbings is the plural of fibbing.

Meaning of fibbing

Noun

fibbing (plural fibbings)

  1. (informal) The telling of a lie.
    • 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 […]1893, Methodist Review, volume 75, page 957
  2. (archaic) A repeated strike of an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
    • 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.'1837, Barham, Richard Harris, The Ghost

Questions about fibbings

What is fibbings the plural of?
Fibbings is the plural of fibbing.

Words near fibbings in the dictionary

  1. fibbers
  2. fibbery
  3. fibbie
  4. fibbies
  5. fibbing
  6. fibbings
  7. fibble-fable
  8. fiber
  9. fiber art
  10. fiber arts
  11. fiber bundle

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