cloy
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cloy¹
- /klɔɪ/ US
Rhymes with -ɔɪ
Where it comes from
From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
verb cloys · cloying · cloyed
-
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
Similar: block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up
-
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
Similar: fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up
- To fill to loathing; to surfeit. Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
Cloy²
proper noun
- A male given name. The third Iraq veteran -- 23-year-old Cloy Richards of Salem, Missouri, who was wounded in combat -- will avoid losing his disability benefits after agreeing not to wear his uniform at future protests, the Marine Corps said.
Translations
Talk about this word "cloy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cloy. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. cloy. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cloy "cloy." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cloy.Cite this
@misc{cloy_2026,
title = {cloy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cloy},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
