Lying vs Fibbing - What's the difference?
lying | fibbing |
* 1811 , ,
An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
* Jeremy Taylor
The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
* Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
As verbs the difference between lying and fibbing
is that lying is present participle of lang=en while fibbing is present participle of lang=en.As a noun lying
is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.lying
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(wikipedia lying)Verb
(head)Sense and SensibilityThe Free Library , Chapter 19:
- Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..
Noun
(en noun)- But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?