Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To engage in the composition of fables or stories, especially those featuring a strong element of fantasy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To tell
invented stories, often those that involvefantasy , such asfables . - noun A folk story that is not entirely believable.
- noun specifically A folk story that is told for entertainment, and not intended to be taken as true.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh Anni adn Catena, ai woz nawt tehre to congr-fabulate u on ur ty fur teh furvestfromlarst spawt.
Dis da one I want and I’m not - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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If you want someone to fabulate together an excact dollar figure, you will have to go to someone more dishonest than me.
My take on anti-foreign bias, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Poet and storyteller both fabulate in order to produce true pictures of reality - reality as it is, or as it seems to them to be.
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People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have "desire to fabulate."
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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