cloy

present singular third person cloys · participle present cloying · participle past cloyed · past cloyed

1. transitiveTo fill up or choke up; to stop up.

   Synonyms: block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up

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

   Synonyms: fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff

3. transitiveTo fill to loathing; to surfeit.

   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.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Synonyms: jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit

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.

   2007 August 9, David Morgan, “Anti-war Iraq vets face punishment over protest”, in Reuters