GLIBBING

Verb

glibbing

present participle of glib

Source: Wiktionary


GLIB

Glib, a. [Compar. Glibber; superl. Glibbest.] Etym: [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.

Glib, v. t.

Definition: To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Glib, n. Etym: [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]

Definition: 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.

Glib, v. t. Etym: [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld, Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.]

Definition: To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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