Glib : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Glib	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Glib
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glib adj marked by lack of intellectual depth; "glib generalizations"; "a glib response to a complex question" having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial" Synonym(s): glib, pat, slick artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth- tongued hypocrite" Synonym(s): glib, glib-tongued, smooth- tongued
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glib \Glib\, a. [Compar. {Glibber}; superl. {Glibbest}.] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.] 1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.] 2. 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. --Shak. Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glib \Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.] 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. --Spenser. Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glib \Glib\, v. t. To make glib. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glib \Glib\, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.] To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] --Shak.