cloy en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /klɔɪ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
Meanings
- (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
- (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
-
(transitive) 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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cloyed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| cloyed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| cloys | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| cloying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cloyer · overcloy · cloyless · cloysome · cloyment
Relateds
Synonyms
satiate (satiate) · block up (fill or choke up) · stuff up (satiate) · satisfy (satiate) · stodge (satiate) · glut (satiate) · stuff up (fill or choke up) · nauseate (fill to loathing) · choke (fill or choke up) · fill (fill or choke up) · stuff (satiate) · jade (fill to loathing) · fill up (fill or choke up) · sate (satiate) · sicken (fill to loathing) · surfeit (fill to loathing) · stop up (fill or choke up) · fill up (satiate) · stuff (fill or choke up) · gorge (satiate) · pall (fill to loathing) · block (fill or choke up)
Translations (27)
nl volstoppen (fill to loathing) · gd sàsaich (fill up) · bg пресищам се (fill up) · cs vyplnit (fill up) · sh nasititi (satiate) · ro sătura (satiate) · nl opvullen (fill up) · es hartar (fill to loathing) · bg втръсвам се (fill to loathing) · ca embafar (fill to loathing) · cs přesytit (satiate) · nl vullen (fill up) · cs ucpat (fill up) · cs přesytit (fill to loathing) · nl vervullen (satiate) · nl volstoppen (fill up) · bg пресищам се (satiate) · cs nasytit (satiate) · ru пресыщать (satiate) · sh presititi (fill to loathing) · sh pretrpati (fill to loathing) · gd sàsaich (satiate) · es empalagar (fill to loathing) · nl oververzadigen (fill to loathing) · sh presititi (fill up) · cs přeplnit (fill up) · nl verzadigen (satiate)