Lib vs Glib - What's the difference?
lib | glib |
liberal
liberation
library
To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
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
As an abbreviation lib
is the libertarian party.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 or glib can be (obsolete) to castrate; to geld; to emasculate.As a noun glib is
(historical) a mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in ireland.lib
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib- .Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)- women's lib
External links
* ("lib" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
From (etyl) libbe, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) libben, related to (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(libb)Anagrams
* bil ----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.