单词 | glibly |
释义 | gliblyadv. In a glib manner. 1. Smoothly; easily; without impediment. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adverb] > without hindrance or encumberment freelyeOE wellOE freec1250 glidderly13.. without (also but) lettingc1330 oliver current1466 smootha1500 pronewise1585 currently1586 glib1594 glibly1607 clearly1612 swimminglya1640 smoothly1668 uninterrupted1677 unobstructedly1788 smack-smooth1802 sweetly1825 sweet1846 unimpededly1846 hitchlessly1910 1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. Bv You shall ha' some will swallow A melting heire, as glibly, as your Dutch Will pills of butter. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 84 Tradewell. Here's no grosse flattery: Will she swallow this? Goldwire. You see she does, and glibly. 1686 J. Dunton Lett. from New Eng. (1867) 13 Nor was there wanting to all this good chear, plenty of Wines to make it go down glibly. 1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 54 The sapless habit daily to bedew, And give the hesitating wheels of life Gliblier to play. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 84 These..lines..have no knots to prevent their running glibly through the rings of the rod. 1807 Sporting Mag. 29 70 Every thing went on glibly. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 258 The old lady..seemed to swallow the lie very glibly. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Wanderings Fat Contributor ii, in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 78 [It] was slipping down his throat as glibly as an oyster. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 196 His broken fragments will reunite more glibly than the head and neck of Orrilo. 2. Fluently, with ready utterance. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb] roundly1546 babblingly1561 babblishly1574 talkatively1589 full-moutha1605 fluently1613 volubly?1615 gliba1623 glibly1669 gash1721 gashlya1774 rattlingly1824 loquaciously1854 garrulously1859 chatteringly1864 communicatively1868 chattily1892 talkingly1895 gushily1921 yappingly1924 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 232 Let them come to make a familiar discourse in Latine..they do it not glibly, in a current Style. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman Introd. 8 These caricatures of the real beauty of sensibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste. 1801 M. Edgeworth Angelina iv, in Moral Tales II. 117 Mrs. Puffit, having glibly run off this speech, left the room. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 269 None knew their parts, and the prompter could not read glibly enough to do his office. 1885 Manch. Examiner 4 Feb. 3/5 We talk glibly of ‘Dutch painting’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1607 |
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