Definition of "glib" in English

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

4. Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.

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.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth or tongue.

noun

1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.

verb

1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.