glazed

adj, noun — 4 senses

glazed

adj

/ɡleɪzd/

1

Of eyes: glistening but not focusing on anything in particular; showing no liveliness.

  • Near-synonyms: glassy-eyed, glassy
  • Bradly served him a handsome allowance, and Podson was at it, even in the process of its being served. He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68:
2

Having a glaze (a coating).

  • a glazed ham
  • a glazed doughnut
3

Architecture, Business, Construction, Manufacturing Having glass in the windows.

  • a shelter at the bus stop with glazed sides and rear
  • a glazed garden shed
Derived terms
double-glazed, glazed curd, glazedly, glazedness, lead-glazed, nonglazed, semi-glazed, semiglazed, tin-glazed
Related terms
glass, glazer, glazier, glazing

glazed

noun
1

US, Colloquial A glazed donut, one with a coating such as sugar or chocolate.

  • Krispy your Kremes with fresh, non-corporate cakes and glazeds in such flavors du jour as Pistachio, Tres Leches, Meyer Lemon, and Blackout (a nod to the star attraction of the long-gone Ebinger's Bakery).2010, Ayun Halliday, Zinester's Guide to New York, page 65:
  • She had to herd them into Bruce's Coffee and Doughnut and stuff them with chocolate glazeds to get the story […]2012, Patricia Bow, The Starry Window, page 34:
1 more example
  • And since I know you probably didn't have breakfast, I left a couple of glazeds on a napkin on your sorry excuse for a desk.”2014, Marilyn Baron, Homecoming Homicides:

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