To Fib (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

To Fib

To beat. Fib the cove’s quarron in the rumpad for the lour in his bung; beat the fellow in the highway for the money in his purse. CANT.—A fib is also a tiny lie.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Feuterer * Fice

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.