Glib vs Flippant - What's the difference?
glib | flippant |
Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
Smooth or slippery.
Artfully persuasive in nature.
* Shakespeare
To make glib.
(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
* Southey
(obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
* 1623 : , Act II Scene 1
mud, mire
(archaic) glib; speaking with ease and rapidity
* Barrow
nimble; limber.
Showing disrespect through a casual attitude, levity, and a lack of due seriousness; pert.
* Burke
* 1998 , , The Metaphysical Touch
* 2000 , Anthony Howard and Jason Cowley, Decline and Fall, New Statesman, March 13, 2000
* 2004 , , The Easy Way to Stop Smoking , page 147
As adjectives the difference between glib and flippant
is that glib is having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow while flippant is glib; speaking with ease and rapidity.As a verb glib
is to make glib.As a noun glib
is a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.glib
English
Etymology 1
Probably modification of Low German glibberig'' (slippery) or a shortening of English ''glibbery (slippery).Adjective
(glibber)- a sheet of glib ice
- a glib''' tongue; a '''glib speech
- I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.
Derived terms
* glibly * glibnessVerb
(glibb)- (Bishop Hall)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) glib.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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)- 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.
Noun
Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , gl?b, glíbovi , gliba, glibova , glibu, glibovima , glib, glibove , glibe, glibovi , glibu, glibovima , glibom, glibovima }}flippant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech.
- a sort of flippant , vain discourse
- The conversations had grown more adult over the years—she was less flippant , at least.
- In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine.
- Our society treats smoking flippantly as a slightly distasteful habit that can injure your health. It is not. It is drug addiction.