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单词 glitzy
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glitzyadj.

Brit. /ˈɡlɪtsi/, U.S. /ˈɡlɪtsi/
Etymology: Probably < German glitzern to glitter v. (perhaps via Yiddish); compare German glitzerig glittering: see -y suffix1.
slang (originally and chiefly North American).
Characterized by glitter or extravagant show; ostentatious, glamorous; hence, tawdry, gaudy; glitteringly spectacular, but in poor taste. Cf. glittering adj. 2, glitterati n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [adjective]
theatric1656
spectacular1682
theatrical1709
dramatic1726
sensationary1755
pyrotechnical1825
grandstand1835
pyrotechnic1848
sensational1859
razzle-dazzle1888
whizz-bang1919
glitzy1966
1966 N.Y. Times 31 Aug. 66/4 Advertising will stress that Devil Shake is ‘glitzy’. This claim will be hard to deny, at least until someone defines the word.
1968 Britannica Bk. of Year 745/1 John Kander's music,..Patricia Zipprodt's glitzy-tawdry costumes, and Ronald Field's wittily obscene choreography were fused..into a corrosively brilliant symbol of human depravity.
1975 New Yorker 5 May 138/2 This number, like the ballet as a whole, is much too restless and glitzy.
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Nov. 1/4 The restaurants of the future..will..be big gala places with entertainment and booze-ups and big bills...The Cossacks has gone glitzy.
1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 5/3 The five man band play havoc-wreaking rock 'n' roll, much in the tacky, glitzy style of lamented British Bands such as Spearhead and the Heavy Metal Kids.
1979 Maclean's 28 May 51/1 But in a forum ringing with the clack of easy typewriters and the back-thumping of glitzy cynics, words like style, art, commitment are booed offstage.
1983 E. Leonard LaBrava (1985) i. 7 But look at the dressing room, all the glitzy crap, the tinfoil cheapness.
1985 Listener 21 Mar. 27/1 The Oscars are the high point of the Western film industry's year—a glitzy, vulgar affirmation that they're getting things right.

Derivatives

glitz n. [as a back-formation] an extravagant but superficial display; showiness, ostentation, esp. show-business glamour or sparkle.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > (an) ostentatious display
pompc1330
vaunterya1492
pomping pridec1503
braga1513
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
plume1580
affecting1584
top and topgallant1593
ruffle1609
parado1621
riota1649
flutter1667
show1713
sprunk1746
to make a splash1804
show-off1811
paraffle1816
shine1819
splurge1828
gaud1831
spludge1831
poppy-show1860
razzle1885
razzmatazz1917
foofaraw1933
showbiz1970
glitz1977
1977 New Republic 19 Feb. 21/2 Stoppard's plays have been marked by undergraduate cleverness and glitz and ultimate sterility.
1977 Time 4 July 52/2 Her style is often derivative of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion, but Babitz has the one indispensable quality for her kind of work: true glitz.
1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 200/1 One American reviewer swooned over Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz's latest bundle of glitz.
1985 Toronto Life Sept. 41/3 There was too much Third-World esoterica and not enough Hollywood glitz.

Draft additions 1993

ˈglitzily adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [adverb]
flauntingly1584
garishly1593
showfully1613
flashily1736
showily1755
gaudily1764
violently1771
flauntily1830
loudly1849
snazzily1980
glitzily1982
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adverb]
boggishlya1375
with great renowna1400
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
rufflingly1575
flaunt-a-flaunt1576
peacock-like1576
peacockwise1577
peacockly1580
aflaunt1584
vauntingly1593
wealth boastingly1593
prankingly1610
fastuously1654
ostentativelya1658
ostentously1665
ostentatiously1671
showily1755
violently1771
paradingly1792
peacockically1834
peacockishly1834
pretentiously1848
ostensibly1855
slangily1858
peacocky1860
splurgily1887
swankily1924
glitzily1982
1982 Time 20 Dec. 87/3 When the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem.., things like this open less glitzily.
1991 P. Roth Patrimony ii. 25 The lamps..were a little glitzily ornate and surprisingly uncharacteristic of my mother's prim, everything-in-its-place aesthetic.
ˈglitziness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour
glamour1937
glam1961
zhuzh1968
showbiz1970
glitziness1982
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1982 Washington Post 14 Feb. (Book World) 8/1 He describes..the nature of quarks.., the shallow glitziness of Cosmos, and the operation of fusion reactors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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