CLOY DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
cloy v 1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy] 2: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall] cloy clyo coly cloy 1530, aphetic of Anglo-Norm. acloyer, from O.Fr. enclouer "to fasten with a nail, hinder, cripple a horse by driving a nail into the hoof," from clou "a nail," from V.L. inclavare, from L. clavus "a nail." Meaning "to fill to loathing, surfeit" is first recorded 1530. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) 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 transitive verb to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing intransitive verb to cause surfeit Synonyms: see satiate Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary cloy klɔɪ v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) satiate or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, etc. øøcloyingly adv. [ME f. obs. acloy f. AF acloyer, OF encloyer f. Rmc: cf. ENCLAVE] 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue CLOY To steal. To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cloy the lour; to steal money. Cant. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Cloy \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.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden. 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms cloy v. a. Satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 25 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloy": 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 |
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