Fib

Noun

 * 1)  A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
 * You've been telling fibs again, haven't you?

Verb

 * 1)  To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

Synonyms

 * tell a fib
 * tell fibs

Noun

 * 1)  Short form of fibula.

Thesaurus
be untruthful, blague, bouncer, canard, cock-and-bull story, concoct, deceive, draw the longbow, equivocate, equivocation, evasiveness, exaggerate, exaggeration, fabricate, fairy tale, falsehood, falsify, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, half-truth, legal fiction, lie, lie flatly, little white lie, make up, mendacity, mislead, palter, pious fiction, prevaricate, prevarication, slight stretching, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tell a lie, trump up, trumped-up story, untruth, untruthfulness, white lie, yarn

Etymology 1
Probably from fable; compare fibble-fabble (nonsense).

Etymology 2
Shortened from fibula

Noun

 * French:
 * Italian: menzogna, bugia, baggianata, bufala, fola, frottola, fandonia


 * Portuguese:

Verb

 * Italian: mentire


 * Russian: ,

Anagrams

 * BFI
 * FBI
 * IBF