glib

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ɡlɪb/

adj

Etymology: A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).

Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
“glib anwers”
“A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.”
Smooth or slippery.
“a sheet of glib ice”
Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
“a glib tongue”
“a glib speech”
Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
“Sometimes our relationship is strained, for though we both recognize each other's intelligence, he think's I'm often too serious and I think he's often too glib”
“Its style is both open and arch, never verging on glib camp but always a little removed, reducing large emotions to small observations and thereby making them all the more effective.”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Irish glibbor. English glib Borrowed from Irish glib.

A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
“Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […]”
“The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.”

verb

Etymology: Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.

To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
“Fourteen they shall not see To bring false generations. They are co-heirs; And I had rather glib myself than they Should not produce fair issue.”