Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To install windows. · To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. · To become glazed or glassy. · Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. · A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint. · A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice. · Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
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 may suggest either the spattering of semen on the complimented person, following "the visual of a donut being glazed", or sugarcoating without sexual connotation. The noun is from the verb.
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