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🗣️ Insincerely smooth 🦠 Slippery or slimy
glibbery

glibbery

9.9
Having a wet, slippery surface like mud or a fish
  • adjective
translation icon : resbaladizo
  • She slipped on the glibbery floor near the kitchen sink.

Examples

  • The fish felt glibbery in his hands as he tried to hold it.

  • The glibbery mud stuck to my shoes.

  • The path was covered in glibbery mud after the heavy rain.

  • The glibbery surface made it hard to walk.

  • The path was covered in glibbery mud after the heavy rain.

  • She slipped on the glibbery floor near the kitchen sink.

  • The fish felt glibbery in his hands as he tried to hold it.

Synonyms

greasy
vsglibbery
123 1.0

Covered in oil or fat and feels slippery

is slippery in a slimy unpleasant way rather than oily from grease

Antonyms

steady
186 1.3

Firm and unlikely to be moved or upset

firm
30 1.0

Hard and solid to the touch, not easily pressed

How Slippery

slimy
42 2.5
glibbery
9.9
slippery
80 1.0
slick
56 3.9
oily
38 1.0

Surface Forms

glibbery positive

Morphology

glibbery = glib (semi-transparent) = glib + bery

The tactile meaning 'slippery, slimy' is a metaphorical extension from 'smooth' but not an obvious derivation for learners who know only the speech-related sense of 'glib'.

Etymology

Glibbery comes from the same root as glib and the old Dutch word glibberig, which meant 'slippery'. So, glibbery can mean something wet or 'slimy' that makes you slip, like mud or a fish.