| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  gl ts |
| NOUN: | Informal Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: “a garish barrage of show-biz glitz” (Peter G. Davis). | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: glitz·ed, glitz·ing, glitz·es
To invest with an ostentatiously showy quality: “have started to glitz up their shows with filmed backdrops” (Bill Barol). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Back-formation from glitzy, flashy, showy, probably from German glitzern, to glitter, from Middle High German glitzen, to shine, from Old High German gl zan. See ghel-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | glitz i·ness —NOUN
glitzy —ADJECTIVE
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