Dictionary entry

Glib

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Glib (glĭb), a. [Compar.Glibber (?); superl.Glibbest (?).] [Prob. fr. D. glibberen, glippen, to slide, glibberig, glipperig, glib, slippery.]

1. Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.

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.