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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glib" Quotes from Famous Books

... Every one will know what we mean, that we are honest men and true; and you will be spared this everlasting palaver. Then we will have some rules, or by-laws, or something, for the workmen. Talk to Mr. Winston about it. He would make a capital speaker, with his glib tongue." ...

— Hope Mills - or Between Friend and Sweetheart • Amanda M. Douglas

... able to howl, but he certainly could not talk, and it was hard for him to follow such a glib speaker as the president. However, the fact remained that he had distinguished himself, and brought honour to the Fifth Form in general by taking seven wickets; and for this reason his comrades would have been content had he merely stood up and reeled off the list of prepositions which govern ...

— Soldiers of the Queen • Harold Avery

... itinerant lecturer with a smooth, ready tongue came to the village charged with novel ideas about the immortality of the soul, accepting the literal truth of the text "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." I attended the meetings and took notes of the speaker's glib talk. I distinctly remember that it was from his mouth that I first heard the word "encyclopaedia." When he cited the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" in confirmation of some statement, I had no doubt of its truth, and I resolved sometime to get my hands on ...

— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... working Colonials. The money-making lot flourish to some extent in Kimberley, but most of all in Johannesburg. You are soon able to recognise his points and identify him at a distance. He is a little too neatly dressed and his watch-chain is a little too much of a certainty. His manner is excessively glib and fluent, yet he has a trick of furtively glancing round while he talks, as if fearful of being overheard. For the same reason he speaks in low tones. He must often be discussing indifferent topics, but he always ...

— With Rimington • L. March Phillipps

... Tante had accused her of it, too. But no; it had been slowly to freeze to stillness to hear his clear cold utterance of shameful words, see the folly of his arrogance and his complacency, realise, in his glacial look and glib, ironic smile, that he was blind to what he was destroying in her. For he could not have torn her heart to shreds and then stood bland, unaware of what he had done, had he loved her. Her young spirit, unversed in irony, drank in the bitter draught of disillusion. They ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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