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cloyeth

cloyeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cloy.

Meaning of cloy

Verb

cloy (third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed)

  1. (transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  2. (transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  3. (transitive) 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

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Origin of cloyeth

cloy + -eth

Questions about cloyeth

What is cloyeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cloyeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cloy.

Words near cloyeth in the dictionary

  1. cloyedness
  2. cloyer
  3. cloyers
  4. cloyes
  5. cloyest
  6. cloyeth
  7. cloying
  8. cloyingly
  9. cloyingness
  10. cloyless
  11. cloyment

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