In George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier he writes these words, quoting someone and then commenting
'Have another cream cracker, Mr Reilly. You'll like a cream
cracker with your cheese' - thus glozing over the fact that there was
only cheese for supper.
It is, of course, just an archaic form of "glossing" in the sense of underplaying or minimising. It is in Milton's Paradise Lost
"For man will heark'n to his glozing lyes".
2 comments:
I think quite a lot of flocculent glozing goes on beneath the surface, don't you.
Indubitably
(not taken with the sausage roll game then? ;-))
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