Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slippery; fickle.
- Voluble; glib; fluent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Slippery; changeable.
- adjective obsolete Moving easily; nimble; voluble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
slippery ;changeable - adjective obsolete Moving easily;
nimble ;voluble .
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Examples
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The okra didn't work as well as I expected, it just got glibbery.
Backdated Bento #54 – Happy Lunar New Year! « Were rabbits 2007
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The bank was very steep, and the rocks by the river's edge were broken and glibbery.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Now wrestlers in the Olympian games were naked, and anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery, so to afford no holdfast to such as strove with them.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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In my case, so much of what I say is sheer glibbery, but, then, I don’t have an immortal soul or a god to back it up.
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And I haven’t yet got some bird’s eye glibbery to sum up his run on X-Men, just finished, but I don’t think it hinges so much on this question.
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