glib
[glɪb]
a. 善道, 流畅

1. A glib salesman sell her a set of dish that she do not want.
   位言词伶俐推销卖她套她碟。
2. He has a glib tongue.
   口舌伶俐。
3. This may be too glib。
   严肃。

glib
glibber, glibbest
[ adj ]

1. marked by lack of intellectual depth

<adj.all>
glib generalizations
a glib response to a complex question

2. having only superficial plausibility

<adj.all>
glib promises
a slick commercial

3. artfully persuasive in speech

<adj.all>
a glib tongue
a smooth-tongued hypocrite

Glib \Glib\, v. t.
To make glib. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.


Glib \Glib\, n. [Ir. & Gael. glib a lock of hair.]
A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes. [Obs.]

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long
glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging
down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.
--Spenser.

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle. --Southey.


Glib \Glib\, v. t. [Cf. O. & Prov. E. lib to castrate, geld,
Prov. Dan. live, LG. & OD. lubben.]
To castrate; to geld; to emasculate. [Obs.] --Shak.


Glib \Glib\ (gl[i^]b), a. [Compar. {Glibber} (gl[i^]b"b[~e]r);
superl. {Glibbest} (gl[i^]b"b[e^]st).] [Prob. fr. D.
glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib,
slippery.]
1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib. [Obs.]

2. Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity;
fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.

I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not. --Shak.

Syn: Slippery; smooth; fluent; voluble; flippant.