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glossies

glossies is the plural of glossy.

Meaning of glossy

Noun

glossy (plural glossies)

  1. (UK, informal) A glossy magazine.
    • The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.
  2. (informal) A glossy photograph.
    • His roster of patients was drawn almost exclusively from among what he liked to call creative people, chiefly writers and painters and composers, and he talked about them so freely that I sometimes half expected him to put up autographed glossies around the office, like the ones on the wall at the...1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker
  3. (informal) A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.
    • Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman's and even a mother's heart beating strongly beneath her...1959, Film Review, page 102

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Questions about glossies

What is glossies the plural of?
Glossies is the plural of glossy.

Words near glossies in the dictionary

  1. glosses over
  2. glossic
  3. glossid
  4. glossids
  5. glossier
  6. glossies
  7. glossiest
  8. glossily
  9. glossina
  10. glossiness
  11. glossinesses

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