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"I'm not going to pretend I like Hilary when I don't -- that would be a fiblet and worse than red daggers.
A harum-scarum schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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"Which is more than a fiblet, and about the biggest whopper that Miss
The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907
mollusque commented on the word fiblet
It's a fiblet — a little lie for a very good reason. The choice is to enter the patient's world and comfort, not to confront.
--Joanne Koenig Coste, p. 35 in Betsy Peterson, 2004, Voices of Alzheimer's
September 4, 2009
sionnach commented on the word fiblet
Alternatively, this might be the name given by some Europeans to a small piece of genetically modified corn.
September 4, 2009