glib
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- 2.
(dated)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
Đồng nghĩa: facile, suave
- 4.
Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)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.
- 2.
(obsolete)To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(UK, obsolete, slang)A person's mouth or tongue.
Đồng nghĩa: dubber
- 2.
(historical)A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
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A shortening of either obsolete glibbery slippery or its source, glibberig, glibberich (slippery) / Dutch glibberig (slippery).