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cloy
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[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)
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Origin
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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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