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Webster 1913 Edition
Cloy
Cloy
(kloi)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cloyed
(kloid)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cloying
.] 1.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.
[Obs.]
The duke’s purpose was to have
cloyed
the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.
2.
To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can]
By bare imagination of a feast?
cloy
the hungry edge of appetiteBy bare imagination of a feast?
Shakespeare
He sometimes
cloys
his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.
3.
To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly
cloyed
. Spenser.
He never shod horse but he
cloyed
him. Bacon.
4.
To spike, as a cannon.
[Obs.]
Johnson.
5.
To stroke with a claw.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cloy
CLOY
, v.t.1.
Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit.Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
2.
To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent.3.
In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.[In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.]
Definition 2024
cloy
cloy
English
Verb
cloy (third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed)
- (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
- (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 3, in The Celebrity:
- 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.
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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
Translations
fill up
satiate
fill to loathing
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