† glibbinn.
Obsolete. rare.
A woman who wears a glib.
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1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. i. xvii. 151 In Terconnell the haire of their head growes so long and curled, that they goe bare-headed, and are called Glibs, the women Glibbins.
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n.1618- as cool as a clock
- as cool as ice
- as crazy as a box of frogs
- as crazy as a loon
- as crooked as a ram's horn
- as cross as a bear
- as cross as a bear with a sore head
- as cross as two sticks
- as cunning as a christian
- as cute as a button
- as cute as a christian
- as daft as a brush
- as daft etc as a brush
- as daft mad as a brush
- as dead as a dodo
- as dead as a mell
- as dead as a nit
- as dead as dog shit
- as dead as mutton
- as dead as the dodo
- as dead, deaf, dumb, dour as a doornail
- as deaf as a door, doorpost, doornail
- as deaf as an adder or a post
- as demure as a whore at a christening
- as digne as ditch-water