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glibEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
A shortening of either obsolete English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
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Borrowed from Irish glib.
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Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.
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1908- GlibEnglish · e-38538-3043
Glib, glib, adj. moving easily: voluble.—v.i. to move freely.—adv. Glib′ly.—n. Glib′ness. [A contr. of Dut. glibberig, slippery.]
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Glib, glib, n. (Spens.) a bush of hair hanging over the eyes. [Gael., a lock of hair.]
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Glib, glib, v.t. (Shak.) to emasculate, to castrate. [Perh. an error for lib, to castrate.]
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