[Ads-l] Slang: glaze: to praise excessively, verb & noun

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The Merriam-Webster website has a recent entry for the slang term glaze.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/glaze

[Begin excerpt]
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).
[End excerpt]

[Begin Merriam-Webster earliest citation]
I’ll stop glazing when he stops deserving it, which he won’t, because
he’s the best.
—@mpsteidle, Reddit, 8 Jan. 2025
[End Merriam-Webster citation]

Glaze has multiple meanings, and ambiguity is common in short tweets.
Here is an earlier citation in which the meaning is reasonably clear.

https://x.com/the_habitant/status/1706025338386403739
Xtwitter handle: The Habitant @the_habitant
Timestamp: 3:18 PM · Sep 24, 2023
[Begin message]
I’m not going to post each of thr 100+ tweets where I praise him, but
like I said, you don’t have to glaze someone and have rosy-tinted
glasses. Being objective isn’t a crime
[End message]

The meaning may have been influenced by rhyming wordplay together with
drug and/or sexual slang.

In 2014 the phrases "glaze and praise" and "praise and glaze" were
sometimes used with "420" and glazed donuts.

https://x.com/camilacabello_3/status/456521302690377728
Xtwitter handle: alimac @camilacabello_3
Timestamp: 3:55 PM · Apr 16, 2014
[Begin message]
@kendalI_j 420 blaze and praise and glaze that shit
[End message]

https://x.com/hendog____/status/457702870419128320
Xtwitter handle: henry @hendog____
Timestamp: 10:10 PM · Apr 19, 2014
[Begin message]
Blaze and praise? More like glaze and praise 🙏🙏🙏
[End message]

https://x.com/niceplants/status/457916232834883585
Xtwitter handle: Samantha @niceplants
Timestamp: 12:18 PM · Apr 20, 2014
[Begin message]
420 praise and glaze
[End message]

The tweet above included a picture of a glazed donut.

Garson

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