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Funny vs Glib - What's the difference?

funny | glib |

As adjectives the difference between funny and glib

is that funny is amusing; humorous; comical while glib is having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

As nouns the difference between funny and glib

is that funny is a joke while glib is a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.

As a verb glib is

to make glib.

funny

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(er)
  • Amusing; humorous; comical.
    • When I went to the circus, I only found the clowns funny .
  • Strange or unusual, often implying unpleasant.
    • The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
    Synonyms
    * See also * See also
    Derived terms
    Related terms
    * fun

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (humorous) A joke.
  • * 2014 , Brian Conaghan, When Mr. Dog Bites (page 54)
    • Everyone would be sitting on big fluffy white clouds singing songs, telling funnies and just enjoying the day.
  • (humorous) A comic strip.
  • * 2009 , R. P. Moffa, The Vaulted Sky (page 343)
    • His father was more likely to listen to the radio, although he would read the Sunday funnies , and his grandmother would only read the Italian language paper she picked up at the corner candy store.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a jocular use of (term). See above.

    Noun

    (funnies)
  • (British) A narrow boat for sculling.

    • 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

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