glaze
noun & verb
to praise excessively
What does glaze mean?
To glaze someone or something is to shower them with excessive praise. Additionally, both glaze and glazing are used as nouns to refer to an act of glazing (giving someone excessive praise).
Examples of glaze
Look man I understand the S1 glazing, I really do, but let’s not try and glaze S2 now when 99% of yall were complaining when it was airing
—@IdkNtm1, X (formerly Twitter), 26 Feb. 2025
I’ll stop glazing when he stops deserving it, which he won’t, because he’s the best.
—“this is glaze” damn right im glazing it
—i like the hornets announcers but all they do is glaze even if they’re losing lol
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Where does glaze come from?
The non-slang definition of glaze is “to apply a smooth glossy or lustrous surface or finish to.” The slang glaze would seem to be a figurative extension of this sense, and started showing up on social media in the early 2020s.
How is glaze used?
Glaze tends to carry a note of disapproval—the word is often used in online fandoms of sports, movies, anime, etc., to suggest not just that someone’s praise is over-the-top, but that it is unwarranted, and even annoying to the individual who does not like the person/thing being glazed.
I was just popping off about his yesterday when one of my students accused me of glazing for being happy that Beyoncé finally got an album of the year Grammy. I was like, “Hey, how about it’s actually just okay to like a piece of art or an artist and talk about how much you like it?” Crazy idea????
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