cloy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
Definition of cloy
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
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verb
- (transitive)To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
- (transitive)To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
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(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.”
name
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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.”
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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.
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