Definitions for cloy
klɔɪcloy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surfeit, cloyverb

   supply or feed to surfeit

2. cloy, pallverb

   cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing

   "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloyverb

   To fill up or choke up; to stop up.

2. cloyverb

   To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.

3. cloyverb

   To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CLOYverb

   Etymology: enclouer, Fr. To nail up; to stop up.

   1. To satiate; to sate; to fill beyond desire; to surfeit; to fill to loathing.

   The length of those speeches had not cloyed Pyrocles, though he were very impatient of long deliberations. Philip Sidney.

   The very creed of Athanasius, and that sacred hymn of glory, are now reckoned as superfluities, which we must in any case pare away, lest we cloy God with too much service. Richard Hooker, b. v. sect. 42.

   Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
   By bare imagination of a feast? William Shakespeare, Richard II.

   Continually varying the same sense, and taking up what he had more than enough inculcated before, he sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying them. Dryden.

   Whose little store her well taught mind does please,
   Nor pinch’d with want, nor cloy’d with wanton ease. Wentworth Dillon.

   Intemperance in eating and drinking, instead of delighting and satisfying nature, doth but load and cloy it. John Tillotson.

   Settle, cloy’d with custard and with praise,
   Is gather’d to the dull of ancient days. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

   2. It seems to have, in the following passage, another sense: perhaps to strike the beak together.

   His royal bird
   Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his beak,
   As when his god is pleas’d. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   3. To nail up guns, by striking a spike into the touch-hole.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cloy

   Crash Landing on You (Korean: 사랑의 불시착) is a 2019–2020 South Korean television series written by Park Ji-eun, directed by Lee Jeong-hyo and starring Hyun Bin, Son Ye-jin, Seo Ji-hye, and Kim Jung-hyun. It is about a successful South Korean businesswoman and chaebol heiress who, while paragliding near Seoul, South Korea, is swept up in a sudden storm, crash-lands in the North Korean portion of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), and meets an army captain and son of the Director of the GBP in the Korean People's Army who decides he will help her hide. Over time, they fall in love, despite the divide and dispute between their respective countries. The series aired on tvN in South Korea and on Netflix worldwide from December 14, 2019, to February 16, 2020. It is the highest-rated tvN drama and the fourth highest-rated South Korean TV drama in cable television history.

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1. cloy

   To cloy means to become sickening or distasteful through excess, often related to something that was initially pleasurable or sweet. It can also mean to cause to feel too full, satisfied, or disgusted.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloyverb

   to fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog

2. Cloyverb

   to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit

3. Cloyverb

   to penetrate or pierce; to wound

4. Cloyverb

   to spike, as a cannon

5. Cloyverb

   to stroke with a claw

6. Etymology: [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Cloy

   kloi, v.t. to fill to loathing: to satiate: (Spens.) to gore:—pr.p. cloy′ing; pa.p. cloyed.—adjs. Cloyed, clagged: cumbered; Cloy′ing, satiating; Cloy′less (Shak.) that cannot cloy.—n. Cloy′ment (Shak.), satiety, surfeit.—adj. Cloy′some, satiating. [Fr. clouer, to drive a nail into, to spike or stop, as a gun, from L. clavus, a nail.]

2. Cloy

   kloi, v.t. (Shak.) to stroke with a claw. [Perh. a corr. of Claw.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CLOY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cloy is ranked #48256 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cloy surname appeared 438 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cloy.
   
   53.2% or 233 total occurrences were White.
   37.4% or 164 total occurrences were Black.
   4.3% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.2% or 14 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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1. • Satiate
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Anagrams for cloy »

1. coly

How to pronounce cloy?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloy in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cloy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of cloy in a Sentence

1. Juvenal:

   The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cloy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cloy
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=cloy
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloy
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloy
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=cloy
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html