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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

  • "Which is more than a fiblet, and about the biggest whopper that Miss

    The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907

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  • 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

  • Alternatively, this might be the name given by some Europeans to a small piece of genetically modified corn.

    September 4, 2009