cloy

Definitions


[klɔɪ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment
(e.g: a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’




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