glazed vs shiny what difference

what is difference between glazed and shiny

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡleɪzd/

Adjective

glazed

1. Of eyes: showing no liveliness.
2. Having a glaze (a coating).

3. (architecture, construction) Having glass in the windows, as opposed to having open spaces for windows or being windowless.

Antonyms

• unglazed
• windowless

Translations

Verb

glazed

1. simple past tense and past participle of glaze

Noun

glazed (plural glazeds)

1. (US, colloquial) A glazed donut, one with a coating such as sugar or chocolate.
   • 2014, Marilyn Baron, Homecoming Homicides

     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.”

English

Etymology

shine +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• enPR: shī’nē, IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɪni/
• Rhymes: -aɪni

Adjective

shiny (comparative shinier or more shiny, superlative shiniest or most shiny)

1. Reflecting light.
   • Futurama:

     Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!

2. Emitting light.
3. (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
4. (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
   • The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)

     When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
     Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
     Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
     Oh, ’tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

Derived terms

• shininess

Translations

Noun

shiny (plural shinies)

1. (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
2. (slang) Contraction of disparaging term “shiny arses”, originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.[1]

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