glib

UK /ɡlɪb/ US /ɡlɪb/
adj 4verb 2noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.

2

Smooth or slippery.

a sheet of glib ice

3

Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.

a glib tongue; a glib speech

I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.

4

Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.

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.

When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.

verb

1

To make smooth or slippery.

1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.

And, when to all his Angels he propos'd / To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud, / That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring, / I undertook that office, and the tongues / Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes / To his destruction, as I had in charge.

noun

1

A person's mouth or tongue.

"Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."

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