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Is glib a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word glib is a Scrabble US word. The word glib is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is glib a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word glib is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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Yes. The word glib is a Words With Friends word. The word glib is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

GLIB,

3-letter words (4 found)

BIG,GIB,LIB,LIG,

2-letter words (3 found)

BI,GI,LI,

You can make 8 words from glib according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of glib

glib lgib gilb iglb ligb ilgb glbi lgbi gbli bgli lbgi blgi gibl igbl gbil bgil ibgl bigl libg ilbg lbig blig iblg bilg

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Definitions and meaning of glib

glib

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɪb/
  • Rhymes: -ɪb

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)

  1. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  2. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
  3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
  4. (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
Derived terms
  • glibly
  • glibness
Translations

Verb

glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)

  1. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.
    • 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, [3]
      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.

Etymology 2

From Irish glib.

Noun

glib (plural glibs)

  1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly used in Ireland.

Etymology 3

Compare Old English and dialectal English lib (“to castrate, geld”), dialectal Danish live, Low German and Old Dutch lubben.

Verb

glib (third-person singular simple present glibs, present participle glibbing, simple past and past participle glibbed)

  1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gliba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlîːb/

Noun

glȋb m (Cyrillic spelling гли̑б)

  1. mud, mire

Declension

Further reading

  • “glib” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Source: wiktionary.org