- fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle - a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
--1 is a kind of lie, prevarication
--1 has particulars:fairytale, fairy tale, fairy story, cock-and-bull story, song and dance - baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing
--2 is a kind of nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum