glaze
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Etymology
From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022.[1]
The noun is from the verb.
Pronunciation
Noun
glaze (countable and uncountable, plural glazes)
- (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
- A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
- (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
- Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]
- A smooth edible coating applied to food.
- (cooking) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
- A glazing oven; glost oven.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
coating on pottery
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layer of paint
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edible coating
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meteorology: smooth coating of ice caused by freezing rain
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reduced broth
glazing oven
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Verb
glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)
- (transitive) To install windows.
- (transitive) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
- to glaze a doughnut
- 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London, Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
- An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
- (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
- (intransitive) Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, derogatory) To compliment or praise someone excessively in a cringeworthy way.
Derived terms
Translations
to install windows
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to become glazed
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to apply a thin layer of coating
to apply a thin layer of coating
to apply a thin layer of coating in ceramics
characteristic change of eyes
References
- “Glazing (Slang)”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
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