glazer

¹

[ gley-zher ]

noun

1. a person who applies a glaze, as to pottery, baked goods, leather, or fur.
2. any mechanical device used to apply a glaze.

Glazer

²

[ gley-zer ]

noun

1. Nathan, 1923–2019, U.S. sociologist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of glazer¹

First recorded in 1375–1425, glazer is from the late Middle English word glauser. See glaze, -er ¹

Example Sentences

Her show, Chronic Gamer Girl, ran for two seasons starting in 2012 and features Glazer and her guests playing video games.

From Ozy

Glazer’s Lucy gets pregnant, but as the pregnancy progresses, something appears increasingly off about the charming doc, and Lucy sets out to uncover the full story.

From Time

In Hulu’s False Positive, Glazer and Justin Theroux play a couple who seek the help of a fertility doctor played by Pierce Brosnan.

From Time

The Glazer family owns Manchester United—and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

From Time

It’s too soon to tell what kind of impact that tax will have, Glazer said.

From Voice of San Diego

Thankfully Glazer peeled off from the source material—he told me that his co-writer Walter Campbell never even read the book.

From The Daily Beast

Glazer tells me that he sees the project as a metaphor for looking, of an alien watching and learning.

From The Daily Beast

Others, like Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, never did.

From The Daily Beast

The Glazer family took a storied soccer team private, and changed the corporate agenda.

From The Daily Beast

The polisher requires to run at a speed much short of that of the stone, or the glazer.

From Project Gutenberg

The most important machines outside the working cylinder type are the splitter, and the glazer.

From Project Gutenberg

The tool on which the glazing is performed, is termed a glazer.

From Project Gutenberg

Annie Glazer, that is our teacher's name, has engagements which take her on some days, to another family here.

From Project Gutenberg

The direct and somewhat extensive series of experiments instituted by Glazer, as published in the Deut.

From Project Gutenberg