Overcloy

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To fill beyond satiety. dated, transitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From over- + cloy.

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