lyar

Noun

liar (plural liars)

1. Someone who tells a lie; especially, a person who frequently lies.
   • He simply said, "We know, the Big Satan is a big liar."1995, Syed Ahmed Irshad Tirmazi, Profiles of Intelligence, page 79
2. (obsolete) A swabber responsible for cleaning the outside parts of the ship rather than the cabins, a role traditionally assigned to a person caught telling a lie the previous week.
   • The Swabber is to keep the Cabbins, and all the Rooms of the Ship clean within board, and the Liar to do the like without board. The Liar holds his Place but for a week; and he that is first taken with a Lie upon a Monday morning, […] for that week he is under the Swabber, and meddles not with...1703, Sir William Monson, Sir William Monson's Naval Tracts in Six Books, page 348