Cloy
1 cloy — cloy; cloy·ing; cloy·less; cloy·some; cloy·ing·ly; cloy·ing·ness; …
2 Cloy — (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The… …
3 cloy — [ klɔı ] verb intransitive to make you feel sick or annoyed by being too sweet or too pleasant: The smell of her cheap perfume soon began to cloy. ╾ cloy|ing [ klɔııŋ ] adjective: the movie s cloying sentimentality …
4 cloy — [klɔı] v [I] if something sweet or pleasant cloys, it begins to annoy you because there is too much of it ▪ Her sweet submissive smile began to cloy after a while …
5 cloy — (v.) weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit, 1520s, from M.E. cloyen hinder movement, encumber (late 14c.), aphetic of accloyen (early 14c.), from O.Fr. encloer to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp, figuratively to hinder, check, stop, curb,… …
6 cloy — vb *satiate, sate, surfeit, pall, glut, gorge Antonyms: whet Contrasted words: stimulate, pique, excite, *provoke …
7 cloy — [v] overfill disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary; concept 740 …
8 cloy — [kloi] vt., vi. [aphetic < ME acloien, to hamper, harm, obstruct < OFr encloyer, to fasten with a nail, hinder < clou, a nail < L clavus, nail: see CLOSE2] to surfeit, or make weary or displeased, by too much of something, esp.… …
9 cloy — UK [klɔɪ] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms cloy : present tense I/you/we/they cloy he/she/it cloys present participle cloying past tense cloyed past participle cloyed to make you feel sick or annoyed by being too sweet or too pleasant The… …
10 cloy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. glut, satiate, surfeit, sate; pall, bore. See sufficiency, weariness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. satiate, surfeit, suffice, pall; see satisfy 1 , weary 1 . See Synonym Study at satiate . III (Roget s 3… …
11 cloy — [14] Cloy originally meant ‘fasten with a nail’. It is a reduced form of the long obsolete acloy, which came from Anglo Norman acloyer. This was a variant of Old French encloyer, a descendant of the Vulgar Latin compound verb inclāvāre, based on… …
12 cloy — verb (I) if something sweet or pleasant cloys, it begins to annoy you because there is too much of it: Her sweet submissive smile began to cloy after a while …
13 cloy — [14] Cloy originally meant ‘fasten with a nail’. It is a reduced form of the long obsolete acloy, which came from Anglo Norman acloyer. This was a variant of Old French encloyer, a descendant of the Vulgar Latin compound verb inclāvāre, based on… …
14 cloy — verb Etymology: Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail Date: 1528… …
15 cloy — /kloy/, v.t. 1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate. v.i. 2. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. [1350 1400; aph. var. of ME acloyen < MF… …
16 cloy — verb /klɔɪ/ a) To fill up or choke up; to stop up. b) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to …
17 Cloy — Recorded in over fifty different spellings from Lewis, Lois, Lowis and Loisi, to such as Ludovici, Lotze, Lohde, and Ludwikiewicz, tjroughout Europe this great and ancient name is generally accepted as deriving from the pre 7th century Old… …
18 cloy — Synonyms and related words: allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit …
19 cloy — klɔɪ v. cause to feel satiated or gorged; fatten oneself, gorge oneself …
20 cloy — verb [usu. as adjective cloying] disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. Derivatives cloyingly adverb Origin ME: shortening of obs. accloy stop up, choke , from OFr. encloyer drive a nail into …
