glaze

CEFRC1

/ɡleɪz/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A shiny coating put on food or pottery.

  2. 02

    verb

    To cover something with a smooth, shiny coating.

Examples

  • Place them on the baking sheet, then glaze them with egg yolk.

  • There's too much pineapple glaze on the ham.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.

  2. A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.

  3. The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.

More examples

In context

  • to glaze a doughnut

  • An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

  • […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]

Synonyms

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To make the pottery shiny, the artist will blank it with a clear coating.

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Origin

noun

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. The noun is from the verb.