1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Fibber (s.) a liar, one who
speaks falsely, etc.
1785. Wolcot, Lyric Odes, No. 6, in wks. (1809), i., 67. Your royal
grandsire (trust me, I’m no fibber) Was vastly fond of Colley
Cibber.
1882. Jas. Payn, For Cash Only, ch. xxvi. For one’s lover to be a
fibber is bad enough, but to be a forger
Fibbery, subs. (colloquial).—Lying.
1857. Ducange Anglicus, Vulg. Tongue. ‘The Leary Man.’ And if you
come to fibbery You must mug one or two.
Fibbing, subs. (pugilist).—1. Pummelling an opponent’s head while ‘in
chancery’; a drubbing. Fr., bordée de coups de poings. [From Fib
(q.v.).]
1819. Moore, Tom Crib’s Mem. to Cong., p. 2. And if the Fine Arts
Of fibbing and loving be dear to your hearts.
1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, p. 268 (ed. 1864). Resolved his
fibbing not to mind.
1837. Barham, I. L. (The Ghost). 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.