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glib

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Is glib a Scrabble word?

Yes, glib is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 7 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of glib?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (dated) Smooth or slippery.Examples: "a sheet of glib ice"dated

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.Examples: "1628, Joseph Hal, “Christian Liberty Laid Forth,” in The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume V, London: Williams & Smith, 1808, p. 366, https://books.google.ca/books?id=8iUBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There is a drunken liberty of the Tongue; which, being once glibbed with intoxicating liquor, runs wild through heaven and earth; and spares neither him that is God above, nor those which are called gods on earth."; "And, when to all his Angels he propos'd / To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud, / That he might fall in Ramoth, they demurring, / I undertook that office, and the tongues / Of all his flattering Prophets glibb'd with lyes / To his destruction, as I had in charge."; "They are good internally in Fits of the Stone in the Kidneys, by glibbing the Ureters, and making even a large Stone pass with ease […]"transitive

noun (English)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A person's mouth or tongue.Examples: ""Well, Sal, you mum your dubber pretty generally, but when you do slacken your glib you may as well do it civilly.""Synonyms: dubberUKobsoleteslang

noun (English)

1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.Examples: "Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […]"; "The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them."; "Their wild costume of the glib and mantle."historical

verb (English)

1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.Examples: "Fourteen they shall not see To bring false generations. They are co-heirs; And I had rather glib myself than they Should not produce fair issue."obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "glib"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "glib"?

Scrabble
7 points
G2
L1
I1
B3
Words With Friends
10 points
G3
L2
I1
B4

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