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adjective

Glib adj. (compar. glibber; superl. glibbest)

Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. (Obs.)

Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech. "I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not."

Synonyms: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.

noun

Glib n. A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. (Obs.) "The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them." "Their wild costume of the glib and mantle."

verb

Glib v. t. To make glib. (Obs.)

Glib v. t. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Glib'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glib" Quotes from Famous Books

... He is not glib of speech, though quick enough at sea. As he takes up the little teapot and shakes it roundwise, after the manner of the galley, his great ...

— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman

... of the influence of sympathy. There are some natures that are gifted with a blessed power to bring consolation to men. It is not that they are glib of tongue or facile of speech, but somehow the very pressure of their hand is grateful to the saddened heart. The simple and kindly action, of which we think nothing, may tell powerfully on others, and unclose fountains of feeling deep down ...

— Life and Conduct • J. Cameron Lees

... its slow machinery. He tells us he only obtained the mastery of his pen by toiling faithfully, but inborn in him was the art of talking. Even as a petti-coated child, we read he gesticulated to aid his glib tongue. W. E. Henley (whose acquaintance Louis made about 1875, and who helped Stevenson with his chary praise and frank criticism) says of his friend, "He radiates talk. He will discourse with you of morals, music, marbles, men, manners, meta-physics, medicine, mangold-wurzel, ...

— Robert Louis Stevenson • E. Blantyre Simpson

... think she is shy, and I have said nothing to displease her. My object has been to become friends with her, but I'm afraid she thinks me too unworthy of her friendship. Now, Miss Thorn,—what a baby face it is, to be sure!—look up and speak. You don't seem so glib on the subject as you ought to be. ...

— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre

... is so moral, or so immoral if it comes to that. I notice it's always the folks that ain't had much to do with morals one way or the other that's so almighty glib about them." ...

— Outside Inn • Ethel M. Kelley

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