glibbery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Low German glibberig, glibberich (“slippery”)[1] or Dutch glibberig (“slippery”).[2]
Adjective[edit]
glibbery (comparative more glibbery, superlative most glibbery)
- (obsolete) Slippery; changeable.
- c. 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida:
- His love is glibbery; there is no hold on't.
- (obsolete) Moving easily; nimble; voluble.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/poetasterorarrai00jons_0/page/n1
/mode/1up Act I, scene v]:
- Thy lubrical and glibbery muse.
References[edit]
- “glibbery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “glibbery”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “glibbery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.