"tawdry, gaudy, showy but in bad taste," 1966, from Yiddish glitz "glitter," from German glitzern "sparkle" (see glitter (v.)).
glister
glitch
glitter
glitterati
glitz
glitzy
gloam
gloaming
gloat
glob
global
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