different between bald vs glib
bald
English
Etymology
From Middle English bald, balde, belde, ballid, balled (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare with Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
Alternate etymology has Gothic ????????????????- (bala-, “shining, grey (of body)”), Old English b?l (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”) (both from Proto-Germanic *b?l?), Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ball (“forehead”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??ld/, [b???d] Non-standard: IPA(key): /b??ld/, [b??ld]
- (US) IPA(key): /b?ld/; (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /b?ld/
- Rhymes: -??ld
- Homophone: balled
Adjective
bald (comparative balder, superlative baldest)
- Having no hair, fur or feathers.
- Synonym: hairless
- Antonyms: faxed, haired
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
- (specifically) Having no hair on the head.
- (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
- Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
- (of a statement or account) Unembellished.
- (of a statement) Without evidence or support being provided.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bald (plural balds)
- (Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Verb
bald (third-person singular simple present balds, present participle balding, simple past and past participle balded)
- (intransitive) To become bald.
See also
- callow
- nott
Translations
Further reading
- bald on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Appalachian balds on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ABDL, DLAB, blad
German
Etymology
From Middle High German balde, from Old High German baldo, adverb of bald, pald, from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el-. Cognate with Dutch boud, English bold.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /balt/
- Homophone: ballt
Adverb
bald (comparative eher or früher, superlative am ehesten or frühesten)
- soon, near in time
- Synonyms: demnächst, in Kürze, zeitnah
- almost
- Synonyms: fast, beinahe
Derived terms
- alsbald
- bis bald
- in Bälde
- sobald
Related terms
- -bold
Further reading
- “bald” in Duden online
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?ld/, [b??d]
Adjective
bald (Anglian)
- Alternative form of beald
Declension
Old High German
Alternative forms
- pald
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, whence also Old English bald, Old Norse ballr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bald/
Adjective
bald
- bold, quick
Derived terms
- bald?
- baldo
Descendants
- Middle High German: balt
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz, whence also Old English bald, Old Norse ballr.
Adjective
bald (comparative baldoro, superlative baldost)
- bold, fearless
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: bald, bold, balt, bolt
- German Low German: bold, boll
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glib
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
A shortening of either English glibbery (“slippery”) or its source, Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”) / Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).
Adjective
glib (comparative glibber, superlative glibbest)
- Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
- (dated) Smooth or slippery.
- Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
Derived terms
- glibly
- glibness
Translations
Verb
glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)
- (transitive) To make glib.
- 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, [1]
- 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.
- 1730, Edward Strother, Dr. Radcliffe’s Practical Dispensatory, London: C. Rivington, p. 342, [2]
- 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 […]
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Gran’s Battle,” [3]
- 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.
- 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, [1]
Etymology 2
From Irish glib.
Noun
glib (plural glibs)
- (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 […].
- 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.
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.
- 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! [[s:Westward Ho!/Chapter {{{1}}}|Chapter {{{1}}}]]
- a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
Etymology 3
Compare Old English and dialect lib to castrate, geld, Danish dialect live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.
Verb
glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)
- (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
- 1623: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act II Scene 1
- 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.
- Fourteen they shall not see
- 1623: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act II Scene 1
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *glib?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lî?b/
Noun
gl?b m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- mud, mire
Declension
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