fabulieren — meaning in English

English meaning

• fable noun A short story, often with animal characters, written to teach a moral lesson.
• fib noun A small, usually harmless lie.

Senses

fabulieren is used for these senses in English:

• fable (intransitive, archaic) To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true.
• fib (informal, intransitive) To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.

fable — full definition

1. noun A short story, often with animal characters, written to teach a moral lesson.
2. noun A made-up story or claim; something untrue.
3. verb To make up and tell a story as though it were true.

fib — full definition

1. noun A small, usually harmless lie.
2. verb To tell a small, harmless lie.

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