A.Word.A.D​ay--gloze

[Dave Monroe]

"'the glozing neuters of the world'"  (GR, Pt, IV, p. 677)

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A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

gloze

PRONUNCIATION:
(glohz)


MEANING:
verb tr.:
    To minimize or to explain away.
verb intr.:
    1. To use flattery.
    2. To make an explanation.
    3. To shine brightly.
noun:
    1. A comment.
    2. Flattery.
    3. A pretense.


ETYMOLOGY:
>From Old French gloser (to explain), from Latin glossa (explanation of
a difficult word), from Greek glossa (word needing explanation,
language). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine),
which is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer,
glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera. Earliest documented
use: around 1290.


USAGE:
"When Anthony Blunt was exposed 20 years ago, there were some who
tried to gloze his conduct."
Geoffrey Wheatcroft; Her Russia Right or Wrong; The Spectator (London,
UK); Sep 18, 1999.

"From the pyramid's apex 42.3 billion candlepower's worth of white
light shines, glozes, fulgurates, burns."
Josh Axelrad; Repeat Until Rich: A Professional Card Counter's
Chronicle of the of the Blackjack Wars; Penguin; 2010.

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