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impudent
English
Etymology
From Middle French impudent, from Latin impud?ns (“shameless”), ultimately from in- +? pudere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mpj?d?nt/
Adjective
impudent (comparative more impudent, superlative most impudent)
- Not showing due respect; impertinent; bold-faced.
- The impudent children would not stop talking in class.
Synonyms
- bold
- brazen-faced
- impertinent
- See also Thesaurus:cheeky
Derived terms
- impudently
Related terms
- impudence
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin impud?ns.
Adjective
impudent (masculine and feminine plural impudents)
- impudent
Derived terms
- impudentment
Related terms
- impudència
Further reading
- “impudent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “impudent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “impudent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “impudent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impud?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.py.d??/
Adjective
impudent (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudents, feminine plural impudentes)
- impudent
Related terms
- impudence
Further reading
- “impudent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impud?ns.
Adjective
impudent m (feminine singular impudente, masculine plural impudens, feminine plural impudentes)
- impudent
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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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