Cloy

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /klɔɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Origin

From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, present active infinitive of clāvō, from Latin clāvus.

Full definition of cloy

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.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 3, 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.

Synonyms

• (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up
• (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up
• (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit