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fible-fable
ˈfible-ˈfable Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 fybble-fable. [reduplication of fable.] Nonsense.1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 407 The most fybble⁓fable y{supt} ever could be imagined. 1847 Halliwell, Fible⁓fable, nonsense. Oxford English Dictionary
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▪ I. fib, n.1 colloq. (fɪb) Also 8 phibb. [Of obscure origin; possibly shortened from fible-fable.] 1. A venial or trivial falsehood; often used as a jocular euphemism for ‘a lie’.1611 Cotgr., Bourde, a ieast, fib, tale of a tub. 1726 De Foe Hist. Devil ii. iv. (1840) 221, I think it is a fib. 1773 ... Oxford English Dictionary
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