Cloy

Definition: Cloy

Cloy

Verb

1. Supply or feed to surfeit.

2. Cause surfeit through excess, of something that was initially pleasing: "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite".

Date "cloy" was first used: 1530. (references)

Note: Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), transitive verb. [imperative past participle Cloyed (kloid); present participle verb or noun Cloying.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	CLOY. To steal. To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cloy the lour; to steal money. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms: Cloy

Synonyms: pall (v), surfeit (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Food	Phrase: "across the walnuts and the wine"; "blessed hour of our dinners!"; "now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"; "who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?"
Redundancy	Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander).
Satiety	Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Cloy

English words defined with "cloy": Accloy ♦ Cloyed, Cloyless. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cloy": JOCKUM CLOY ♦ TO JOCK. (references)

Author	Quotation
Publilius Syrus	The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Cloy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cloy" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

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Language		Translations for "cloy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vel (cover, jade, sail, satiate, shroud, surfeit, veil, veiling), ngop (glut, impregnate, palm off, sate, satiate, saturate), neverit (abhor, contempt, detest, disdain, disgust, repulse, scorn, sicken), neveris (abhor, contempt, detest, disdain, disgust, scorn, sicken), mërzit (annoy, badger, bore, bother, disgruntle, dissatisfy, get, nag, peeve, pester, plague, turn sour, vex). (various references)

Arabic		‏إتخم (cram, glut, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, stuff, surfeit). (various references)

Bulgarian		пресищам (sate, satiate, stodge). (various references)

Czech		přesytit (glut). (various references)

Farsi		سیرکردن (Englut, Glut, Revolve, Roam, Sate, Satiate, Saturate), بی میل شدن (Disaffect), بی رغبت کردن . (various references)

French		perdre son charme. (various references)

German		zu süßlich sein, an reiz verlieren (Pall). (various references)

Greek		μπουχτίζω (nincompoop, satiate), παραχορταίνω, υπερπληρώ (glut, overcrowd, overflow, overstock), χορταίνω (glut, have enough, sate, satiate, satisfy). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"תפטם (cram, gorge). (various references)

Hungarian		túlságosan jóllakat (to cloy). (various references)

Italian		stuccare (get fed up, plaster, putty, stucco), saziare (become satiated, fill, get full, get tired, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		満腹 (glut). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ま�"ぷく (all health and happiness, full, glut). (various references)

Manx		cur jioolaght er. (various references)

Pig Latin		oyclay

Portuguese		saturar (charge, glut, impregnate, Pall, sate, satiate, saturate, soak), saciar (glut, indulge, Pall, palladium, sate, satiate, scunner, wreak), enjoar (nauseate, Pall, sicken), enfastiar (badger, bore, pall on), empanturrar (gut, pamper). (various references)

Romanian		sãtura (cram, fill, gorge, sate, satiate, soak, suffice), dezgusta (disgust, revolt, sicken), îmbuiba (cram, gorge, stuff, surfeit, swill). (various references)

Russian		пресыщать (glut, pall on). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		presititi (sate, supersaturate). (various references)

Spanish		empalagar (Pall, pall on, sicken). (various references)

Swedish		övermåtta, äckla (disgust, nauseate). (various references)

Turkish		usandırmak (bind, Pall, pall on, sicken), tiksindirmek, iğrendirmek (disgust, give the pips, make sick, repel, repulse, revolt, sicken), gına getirmek (sate, satiate, saturate), bıktırmak (crowd, disgust, do to death, give the willies, irk, Pall, pall on, sicken, tire, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Ukrainian		пересичувати (sate, satiate, supersaturate, surfeit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	clavus. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	enclouer. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cloy": cloyed, cloying, cloyingly, cloys. (additional references)
	Words containing "cloy": uncloyed, uncloying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cloy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celui, choy, cjoy, clei, cley, Cleyn, clii, clo, clob, cloe, cloi, cloid, cloil, cloit, clon, cloo, clor, cloty, clou, clox, Cloyce, cloyd, cloye, clu, clugy, cluj, cluny, clusy, Clwyn, cly, clyn, Colcy, coldy, coley, coli, colny, cology, Colpoy, colty, Colyn, coxy, coyi, croy, Ctlo, cyb, ecoli, Kclo, klo, Kloyd, koi, Mcfly, Nclo, sloy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cloy" (pronounced kloy")
2	-l oy"	deploy, employ, ploy, redeploy.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: coly.
	Words within the letters "c-l-o-y"
	-1 letter: col, coy.
	-2 letters: lo, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-l-o-y"
	+1 letter: cloys, coaly, colly, cooly, coyly, cyclo, cymol, octyl.
	+2 letters: blocky, calory, cloddy, cloggy, clotty, cloudy, cloyed, coldly, colony, comely, comply, coolly, cosily, costly, cozily, cyclos, cymols, flocky, glycol, octyls, policy.
	+3 letters: acolyte, acyloin, aglycon, balcony, blotchy, cacodyl, callboy, caloyer, calypso, chromyl, chylous, closely, cloying, coalify, cockily, colicky, condyle, cornily, coryzal, courtly, cowedly, coxalgy, crayola, crossly, cycloid, cyclone, cyclops, cytosol, dicotyl, doucely, ecology, flouncy, focally, glycols, halcyon, kolacky, locally, lycopod, octuply, pockily, polycot, pyloric, shylock, slouchy, vocably, vocally, zlotych.
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