fib

nouns

a trivial lie

"he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"

fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle

tell a relatively insignificant lie

"Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

fib

is derived from

is derived from

is a type of (narrower)

tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

"Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29"