Meaning of Glib | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person's mouth or tongue.
   UK, obsolete, slang
2. A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.
   historical

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

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