Noun: glaze
| Singular | glaze |
| Plural | glazes |
Sample Sentences
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[…] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […] [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:]
Nouns inflected like glaze
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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"; could be derived by analogy of sugarcoating first before a sexual connotation is taken separately.
2. The noun is from the verb. See: Old English Nouns '
glæs'.