fibbing
English
Verb
fibbing
- present participle of fib
Noun
fibbing (plural fibbings)
- (archaic, boxing) Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating.
- 1837, Barham, Richard Harris, 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.'
- 1852, Thackeray, William Makepeace, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17:
- 15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.
- 1837, Barham, Richard Harris, The Ghost:
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