gloze

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The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze, an' here was Sandy an' Dauvid's wife lyin' i' the middle o' a' the mairter o' rubbitch.

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  1. transitive verb To minimize or underplay; gloss: glozed over the embarrassing part. See Synonyms at palliate.
  2. intransitive verb Archaic To use flattery or cajolery.

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  1. Middle English glosen, to interpret, explain away, from Old French gloser, from glose, gloss; see gloss2.

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  1. Early modern English also glose; from Middle English glose, a gloss, explanation, specious talk, flattery (noun not in Anglo-Saxon, but see the verb), = Dutch glos = G. glosse = Icelandic glōsa, a gloss, explanation, a banter, taunt, = Swedish glosa = Danish glose, vocable, colloq. taunt, = Swedish glossa = Danish glosse, gloss, = Old French glose, French glose, a gloss, comment, parody, = Provencal glosa,, gloza = Spanish glosa = Portuguese glosa, glossa = Italian glosa, from Late Latin glossa (Middle Latin also glosa), an obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation, later applied to the explanation itself, from Greek γλῶσσ, σ1α, the tongue, a tongue or language, an obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation: see gloss, the same word as gloze, n., but directly from the L. The verb gloze is from the noun.
  2. Early modern English also glose; from Middle English glosen, from Anglo-Saxon *glōsan (only once, with umlaut, glēsan, whence verbal noun glēsung, spelled glēsincg), explain, gloss, = Dutch glozen = Icelandic glōsa, explain by a gloss, chatter, = Old French gloser, gloss, explain, interpret, French gloser, gloss, carp at, find fault with, = Provencal glozar = Spanish glosar = Portuguese glosar, glossar = Italian glosare, from Middle Latin glossare (also glosare), explain, gloss, from Late Latin glossa, a gloss: see gloze, n., and gloss, n. and v.
 

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