cloy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/klɔɪ/

Definition of cloy

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  2. (transitive)To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  3. (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

  1. 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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