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Cloy

//klɔɪ// name, verb

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Proper Noun

1
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."

Verb

1
To fill up or choke up; to stop up. transitive
2
cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing wordnet
3
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. transitive
4
supply or feed to surfeit wordnet
5
To fill to loathing; to surfeit. transitive
"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."

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.

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