fibbing

plural fibbings

1. informalThe telling of a lie.

   Of the fibbings, conventional falsehoods, and white lies disfiguring and vitiating social intercourse and common commercial transactions, it is enough to say that they are in jarring discord with […]

   1893, Methodist Review, volume 75, page 957

2. archaicboxingA repeated strike of an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.

   15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.

   1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17

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   And so did Nick, whom sometimes there would come on / A sort of fear his spouse might knock his head off, / Demolish half his teeth, or drive a rib in, / She shone so much in 'facers' and in 'fibbing.'

   1837, Barham, Richard Harris, The Ghost

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fib