fabling

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noun

The act of telling fables.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounfabling (plural fablings)

plural fablings

  1. The act of telling fables.

    Time has obliterated from my memory much of his wild fablings; and the rest would appear but dull, as written, and to be read on shore.

    1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “The Old Margate Hoy”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 60
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fable
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