Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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glaze

/ɡleɪz/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms glazes glazing glazed glase

  1. noun (ceramics) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
  2. noun A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
  3. noun (meteorology) A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
  4. noun Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
  5. noun A smooth edible coating applied to food.
  6. noun (cooking) Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
  7. noun A glazing oven; glost oven.
  8. noun (Polari) A window.
  9. verb (transitive) To install windows.
  10. verb (transitive) To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. “to glaze a doughnut”
  11. verb (intransitive) To become glazed or glassy.
  12. verb (intransitive) Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
  13. verb (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate onto someone's body.
  14. verb (transitive, intransitive, slang, derogatory, sometimes vulgar) To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

flatter suck up kiss ass dickride meatride fanboy glacé glass glass over glaze over sugarcoat candy

Etymology

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.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.
  2. verb To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.
  3. verb To become glazed of glassy.
  4. noun The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3. Ure.

Etymology [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “glaze”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details