GLOZE

Definition: GLOZE

GLOZE

Intransitive verb

1. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.

2. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.

Noun

1. Specious show; gloss.

2. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.

Transitive verb

1. To smooth over; to palliate.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GLOZE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Noun: flattery, adulation, gloze; blandishment, blandiloquence; cajolery; fawning, wheedling;Verb: captation, coquetry, obsequiousness, sycophancy, flunkeyism, toadeating, tuft-hunting; snobbishness.

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Crosswords: GLOZE

Expression using "GLOZE": gloze over. Additional references.

Greek 

συγκαλύπτω (conceal, cover up), εξηγώ (account for, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, unriddle). (various references)

Indonesian

menyamarkan, membujuk (cajole, candied, canvass, coax, endlong, persuade, talk a person into, wile). (various references)

Manx

jannoo beggan jeh (disregard, pooh-pooh). (various references)

Pig Latin

ozeglay.(various references)

Romanian

scuza (forgive, pardon), atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, tone down, water down). (various references)

Turkish

gizlemek (blot out, bottle up, Bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover up, disguise, dissemble, draw a veil over, enshroud, gloss over, gloze over, hide, hoodwink, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep back, keep from, keep in dark, keep in one's bosom, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, mask, obscure, plant, pocket, screen, secrete, sheathe, shroud, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), örtbas etmek (blanket, cloak, compound, conceal, cover up, explain away, gloss, gloss over, gloze over, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush, hush up, keep smth. quiet, obscure, palliate, paper, sink, smother up, suppress, sweep under the carpet, veneer, wash out, whitewash). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "GLOZE": glozed, glozes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"GLOZE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Galozzi, glize, glofe, Glonek, gloose, glooz, glosey, glosi, glote, goize, Golke, Golz, Golzen, golzern, gooze, goza, goze, Gozem, gozle, Gqoza, groze, Gyoezoe, gyoza, Gyozo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: loge, ogle.

-2 letters: ego, gel, leg, lez, log, ole.

-3 letters: el, go, lo, oe.

+1 letter: glozed, glozes.

+2 letters: lozenge, zooglea.

+3 letters: eulogize, logicize, lozenges, zoogleae, zoogleal, zoogleas, zoogloea.

+4 letters: analogize, apologize, eulogized, eulogizer, eulogizes, geologize, glamorize, globalize, logicized, logicizes, obelizing, overglaze, prologize, sloganize, syllogize, zoogloeae, zoogloeas, zoologies.

+5 letters: allegorize, analogized, analogizes, apologized, apologizer, apologizes, cognizable, creolizing, enzymology, eulogizers, eulogizing, geologized, geologizes, glamorized, glamorizer, glamorizes, glamourize, gleization, globalized, globalizes, hemolyzing, homologize, ideologize, lysogenize, melodizing, mongrelize, novelizing, overglazes, polemizing, polygamize, prologized, prologizes, prologuize, sloganized, sloganizes, solecizing, syllogized, syllogizes, theologize, vowelizing, zabaglione, zymologies.