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   fib

   /fib/

   noun

   • 1. a lie, typically an unimportant one: "parents told little white fibs about out-of-wedlock births"

   verb

   • 1. tell an unimportant lie.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps a shortening of obsolete fible-fable ‘nonsense’, reduplication of fable.

   Derivatives

   • 1. fibber noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • F

     4

   • I

     1

   • B

     3

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