glib

adj

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

   “A much more thorough examination of this period is essential, and no glib answers should be accepted as good coin.”

2. (dated)Smooth or slippery.

   “a sheet of glib ice”

3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.

   “a glib tongue; a glib speech”

   “I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not.”

4. Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.

   “Sometimes our relationship is strained, for though we both recognize each other's intelligence, he think's I'm often too serious and I think he's often too glib”

   “Its style is both open and arch, never verging on glib camp but always a little removed, reducing large emotions to small observations and thereby making them all the more effective.”

   “When Mr. Franco called Mr. McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib. "He said, verbatim, 'I don't know, James, probably some dumb-ass reason,'" Mr. Franco recalled.”

verb

1. (transitive)To make smooth or slippery.

   “1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth.”

   “And, when to all his Angels he propos'd / To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud, / That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring, / I undertook that office, and the tongues / Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes / To his destruction, as I had in charge.”

   “They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease […]”

   “We were having one of our bitterest cold snaps. Wind due north, shrieking over stiff land; two feet of snow, all substances glibbed with ice and granite-hard.”

2. (obsolete)To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

   “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

1. (UK, obsolete, slang)A person's mouth or tongue.

   “"Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly."”

2. (historical)A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.

   “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 […]”

   “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.”

   “But in the dead of njight, who should come in but James Desmond, sword in hand, with a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand.”