cloy
US/klɔɪ/
cloy verb: to fill up or choke up; to stop up.
Verb
cloy (third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed)
- To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
- To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
- To 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
Proper noun capitalized: Cloy
Cloy
- 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
cloy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
cloy in Tamil
- தெவிட்டு, திகட்டு
cloy in Urdu
- بےرغبت کرنا, منہ پھیرنا, رکاوٹ کھڑی کرنا, تنفر پیدا کرنا, تھکانا
cloy in Bengali
- বিরক্তি উৎপন্ন করা
cloy in Malayalam
- ചെടിപ്പുളവാക്കുക, മിതമില്ലാതെ ഭക്ഷിക്കുക, മൂക്കുമുട്ടെ തിന്നുക
Synonyms of cloy
Forms of cloy
| third-person singular present | cloys |
|---|---|
| present participle | cloying |
| past participle | cloyed |
| past | cloyed |
Origin of cloy
From an aphetic form of Middle English acloyen, from Old French enclouer, encloer, from Vulgar Latin *inclāvāre, from Late Latin clāvāre, from Latin clāvus.
Words formed from cloy
Words that rhyme with cloy
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- convoy
- deploy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- foy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- soy
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- doy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- noy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about cloy
- What does cloy mean?
- Cloy means to fill up or choke up; to stop up.
- What is cloy in Tamil?
- Cloy in Tamil is தெவிட்டு, திகட்டு. See Cloy meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cloy?
- Cloy can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cloy?
- Cloy is pronounced /klɔɪ/ (US).
- What is the past tense of cloy?
- The past tense of cloy is cloyed.
Words near cloy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloy (page history and authors); Cloy (page history and authors); cloy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cloy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cloy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cloy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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