cloy
verb/klɔɪ/US
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.
- derived from clāvus
- derived from clāvō
- derived from *inclāvāre✻
- derived from enclouer
- inherited from acloyen
Definitions
To fill up or choke up
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
To fill to loathing
To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
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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.
The neighborhood
- neighborclove
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cloy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA