subs. (pugilist).—1. Pummelling an opponent’s head while ‘in chancery’; a drubbing. Fr., bordée de coups de poings. [From FIB (q.v.).]
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 2.
| And if the Fine Arts | |
| Of FIBBING and boring be dear to your hearts. |
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood (ed. 1864), p. 268. Resolved his FIBBING not to mind.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Ghost).
| —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.’ |
2. (colloquial).—Lying.
