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glitzy, a. slang (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).|ˈglɪtsɪ|
[Prob. f. G. glitzern to glitter (perh. via Yiddish); cf. G. glitzerig glittering: see -y1.]
Characterized by glitter or extravagant show; ostentatious, glamorous; hence, tawdry, gaudy; glitteringly spectacular, but in poor taste. Cf. glittering ppl. a. 2, glitterati n. pl.
1966N.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. 1968Britannica 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. 1975New Yorker 5 May 138/2 This number, like the ballet as a whole, is much too restless and glitzy. 1976Globe & 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. 1977Sounds 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. 1979Maclean's Mag. 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. 1983E. Leonard LaBrava (1985) i. 7 But look at the dressing room, all the glitzy crap, the tinfoil cheapness. 1985Listener 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.
Hence [as back-formation] glitz, an extravagant but superficial display; showiness, ostentation, esp. show-business glamour or sparkle.
1977New Republic 19 Feb. 21/2 Stoppard's plays have been marked by undergraduate cleverness and glitz and ultimate sterility. 1977Time 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. 1983Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 200/1 One American reviewer swooned over Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz's latest bundle of glitz. 1985Toronto Life Sept. 41/3 There was too much Third-World esoterica and not enough Hollywood glitz.
Add: ˈglitzily adv.; ˈglitziness n.
1982Washington Post 14 Feb. (Book World) 8/1 He describes..the nature of quarks.., the shallow glitziness of Cosmos, and the operation of fusion reactors. 1982Time 20 Dec. 87/3 When the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem.., things like this open less glitzily. 1991P. Roth Patrimony ii. 25 The lamps..were a little glitzily ornate and surprisingly uncharacteristic of my mother's prim, everything-in-its-place aesthetic. |