See fib in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "bobarder"
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"code": "fr",
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"ref": "1785, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, published 1788, To Fib:",
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"ref": "1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 16:",
"text": "As Biggs and his party arrived, I heard Hawkins say to Berry, \"For heaven’s sake, my boy, fib with your right, and mind his left hand!\"",
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"ref": "1865, Grantley Berkeley, “Eton Boys”, in My Life and Recollections, volume 1, page 311:",
"text": "Then there was a wild scuffle and a furious outcry, and all the bargemen for a moment seemed to hug me and themselves too; when, as there was no room to hit out, in the phraseology of the ring, I fibbed at half-a-dozen waistcoats and faces with all my might and main.",
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"ref": "1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part sixth, page 207:",
"text": "Quoth he, \"Thou dost surely jest when thou sayest that thou dost not understand such words. Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?\"",
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