yarning

yarning
n
British
telling stories, especially tall stories. The word, based on the phrase 'to spin a yarn' (itself from nautical rope-making or spinning cloth), is heard particularly among adolescent girls since the later 1990s and probably originated in black usage.
► 'Yarning is telling your girlfriends all about this amazing bloke you met on hol-iday and what a deep experience you had...when nothing actually happened.' (Recorded, London student, 2003)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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