Словарь синонимов английского языка - fib

(n) 1. falsehood, (little) white lie, untruth, prevarication, fabrication, invention, misrepresentation, story, (fairy) tale, fiction; lie; Colloq tall story, US tall tale, cock-and-bull story, whopper: I told a little fib when I said my grandmother was ill. -(v) 2. prevaricate, misrepresent, fudge, falsify, misspeak, palter; lie; Colloq waffle: They admitted they had fibbed about who had thrown the egg.