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Ernest vs Glib - What's the difference?

ernest | glib |

As nouns the difference between ernest and glib

is that ernest is obsolete form of lang=en while glib is a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.

As a proper noun Ernest

is a given name derived from Germanic; popular in the 19th century.

As an adjective glib is

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

As a verb glib is

to make glib.

ernest

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • ; popular in the 19th century.
  • * 1895 Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest :
    • GWENDOLEN. --, and my ideal has always been to love someone in the name of Ernest . There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
  • * 1980 P.D.James: Innocent Blood :
    • "What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest' Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called '''Ernest'''. My granddad was ' Ernest ."

    Related terms

    * pet form: Ernie * female given name: Ernestine

    Anagrams

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    glib

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably modification of Low German glibberig'' (slippery) or a shortening of English ''glibbery (slippery).

    Adjective

    (glibber)
  • Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  • Smooth or slippery.
    • a sheet of glib ice
  • Artfully persuasive in nature.
    • a glib''' tongue; a '''glib speech
  • * Shakespeare
    • I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
    Derived terms
    * glibly * glibness

    Verb

    (glibb)
  • To make glib.
    • (Bishop Hall)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) glib.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • *: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 […].
  • * Spenser
    • The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs , which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
  • * Southey
    • Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

    Etymology 3

    Compare Old English and dialect (lib) to castrate, geld, Danish dialect (live), Low German and Old Dutch lubben.

    Verb

    (glibb)
  • (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
  • * 1623 : , Act II Scene 1
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913) ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • mud, mire

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , gl?b, glíbovi , gliba, glibova , glibu, glibovima , glib, glibove , glibe, glibovi , glibu, glibovima , glibom, glibovima }}