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† ˈglibbery, a. Obs.
[Corresponds to Du. glibberig (not found in MDu.), late MLG. glibberich (mod. LG. glibbrig). Cognate forms are Eng. glib a.; Du. (dial.) glib curds; Eng. glibber a. and v. = Du. glibber adj., glibberen vb.; cf. also Du. glippen, glipperen to slip, slide, glipperig slippery. It is possible that the words may stand in ablaut-relation to OHG. gleif sloping, oblique, or that they may be onomatopœic formations suggested by the wk. grade glid of Du. glijden, Eng. glide v.; cf. glidder.]
Slippery; fig. shifty, untrustworthy.
1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. i. 127 Let who will climbe ambitions glibbery rounds, And leane vpon the vulgars rotten loue. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, What, shall thy Lubricall and glibbery Muse Liue, as she were defunct, like Punque in Stewes! 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. i. Wks. 1856 I. 13 His love is glibbery; there's no hold ont, wench. Ibid. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 46 The glibbery ice Of vulgar favour. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 7 The tongue..is a small member, but very glibbery and prone to ruine. a1634Randolph Muses' Looking-Gl. ii. iv. (1638) 33 No, feed on Widdowes, have each meale an Orphan Serv'd to your Table, or a glibbery heire With all his lands melted into a morgage. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 321 Anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery. |