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overcloy

verb

Etymology

From over- + cloy.

  1. derived from clāvus
  2. derived from clāvō
  3. derived from *inclāvāre✻
  4. derived from enclouer
  5. inherited from acloyen
  6. prefixed as overcloy — “over + cloy”

Definitions

  1. To fill beyond satiety.

    • A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
    • He neuer pleaſd his fathers eyes till now, / Nor fild my hart with ouer cloying ioyes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA