glaze

• glase (obsolete)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪz

glaze (countable and uncountable, plural glazes)

1. (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
2. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
3. (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
4. 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, […]

5. A smooth edible coating applied to food.
6. (cooking) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
7. A glazing oven; glost oven.
9. (slang, derogatory) Excessive complimenting or praise, especially in a cringeworthy way.

glaze (third-person singular simple present glazes, present participle glazing, simple past and past participle glazed)

2. (transitive) To install windows.
3. (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.

4. (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
5. (intransitive) Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
6. (transitive, slang, vulgar) to ejaculate onto someone's body.
8. (transitive, intransitive, slang, derogatory) To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.

   Synonyms: suck up, kiss ass, dickride, meatride

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]

• gazel

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaː.zə/

glaze

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of glazen