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Glob vs Glib - What's the difference?

glob | glib |

As nouns the difference between glob and glib

is that glob is a round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance while glib is (historical) a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in ireland.

As verbs the difference between glob and glib

is that glob is to stick in globs or lumps while glib is to make glib or glib can be (obsolete) to castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

As an adjective glib is

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

glob

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
    • He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
  • (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
  • (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.

    • See also

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    Verb

  • To stick in globs or lumps.
  • (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a .

    • Anagrams

    * blog, Blog ----

    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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