different between glib vs shallow
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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shallow
English
Etymology
From Middle English schalowe (“not deep, shallow”); apparently related to Middle English schalde, schold, scheld, schealde (“shallow”), from Old English s?eald (“shallow”), from Proto-Germanic *skal-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, dry out”). Related to Low German Scholl (“shallow water”). See also shoal.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??al??/
- (US) IPA(key): /??æl.o?/
- Rhymes: -æl??
- Hyphenation: shal?low
Adjective
shallow (comparative shallower, superlative shallowest)
- Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide.
- This crater is relatively shallow.
- Saute the onions in a shallow pan.
- Extending not far downward.
- The water is shallow here.
- Concerned mainly with superficial matters.
- It was a glamorous but shallow lifestyle.
- Lacking interest or substance.
- The acting is good, but the characters are shallow.
- Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing.
- shallow learning
- The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French king.
- (obsolete) Not deep in tone.
- (tennis) Not far forward, close to the net.
Antonyms
- deep
Derived terms
- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Translations
Noun
shallow (plural shallows)
- A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water.
- The ship ran aground in an unexpected shallow.
- dashed on the shallows of the moving sand
- A fish, the rudd.
- (historical) A costermonger's barrow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
- You might have gone there quite as easily, and enjoyed yourself much more, had your mode of conveyance been the railway, or a hansom, or even a costermonger's shallow.
- 1871, Belgravia (volume 14, page 213)
Usage notes
- Usually used in the plural form.
Translations
See also
- shoal
- sandbar
- sandbank
Verb
shallow (third-person singular simple present shallows, present participle shallowing, simple past and past participle shallowed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become less deep.
References
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