glib

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person's mouth or tongue. UK,obsolete,slang
    — "Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."
  2. A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland. historical
    — 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 […]
动词 v.
  1. To make smooth or slippery. transitive
    — 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. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. obsolete
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
    — glib anwers
  2. Smooth or slippery. archaic
    — a sheet of glib ice
  3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
    — a glib tongue
  4. 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

词形变化

glibber comparative glibbest superlative glibs present,singular,third-person glibbing participle,present glibbed participle,past glibbed past glibs plural glibs plural glibs present,singular,third-person glibbing participle,present glibbed participle,past glibbed past

词汇关系

衍生词
glibertarian glibly glibness

词源

词源 1
A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Irish glibbor.
English glib
Borrowed from Irish glib.
词源 3
Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.
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