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, and allegedly suggests the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed";^[1] could be derived by analogy of sugarcoating first before a sexual connotation is taken separately.

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.
8. (Polari) A window.
10. (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, sometimes vulgar) To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.

   Synonyms: flatter, suck up, kiss ass, dickride, meatride, fanboy

• 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