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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cloy (kloi),USA pronunciation v.t. - to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.;
surfeit;
satiate.
v.i. - to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance:A diet of cake and candy soon cloys.
- Late Latin inclāvāre to nail in, equivalent. to in- in-2 + -clāvāre, verb, verbal derivative of clāvus nail
- Middle French enclo(y)er
- aphetic variant of Middle English acloyen 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged glut, sate, bore.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cloy /klɔɪ/ vb - to make weary or cause weariness through an excess of something initially pleasurable or sweet
Etymology: 14th Century (originally: to nail, hence, to obstruct): from earlier acloyen, from Old French encloer, from Medieval Latin inclavāre, from Latin clāvāre to nail, from clāvus a nail |