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A fibber is a person who tells fibs — small, lies, often a bit silly: “I didn’t eat the cake” when there is chocolate on your face. We use it with children, and often with a smile. It is informal, and a little old-fashioned. It is kinder than liar. A liar might hurt you on purpose; a fibber is usually just wriggling out of something small. The word names the person, not the act: the verb is to fib. You would not say “he fibbered”; you would say “he fibbed,” or “he’s a fibber.”
愛撒小謊的人
組成From fib (“to lie”) + -er (the person who does it).
同家族的字
- fibthe small lie; a fibber is the person who tells one
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Fibbernoun
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derogatoryslangAn FBI agent.
- This new ID and the new credit card will throw a wrench in the FBI's machine. Those Fibbers will never know what hit them.
fibbernoun
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rareinformalA liar.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。