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What (who) is cloy - definition


cloy         
  • The cast of Crash Landing on You photographed at the press conference, December 2019
2019-2020 SOUTH KOREAN TELEVISION SERIES
Emergency Love Landing; CLOY
¦ verb [usu. as adjective cloying] disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
Derivatives
cloyingly adverb
Origin
ME: shortening of obs. accloy 'stop up, choke', from OFr. encloyer 'drive a nail into'.
Cloy         
  • The cast of Crash Landing on You photographed at the press conference, December 2019
2019-2020 SOUTH KOREAN TELEVISION SERIES
Emergency Love Landing; CLOY
·vt To spike, as a cannon.
II. Cloy ·vt To stroke with a claw.
III. Cloy ·vt To penetrate or pierce; to Wound.
IV. Cloy ·vt To fill or choke up; to stop up; to Clog.
V. Cloy ·vt To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to Satiate; to fill to loathing; to Surfeit.
cloy         
  • The cast of Crash Landing on You photographed at the press conference, December 2019
2019-2020 SOUTH KOREAN TELEVISION SERIES
Emergency Love Landing; CLOY
v. a.
Satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate.
Examples of use of cloy
1. With repeated hearing the artifice begins to cloy and suffocate." I agree with him.
2. Michael Hourigan, the trainer of Hi Cloy, was the prime beneficiary of Loughran‘s moment of madness.
3. Loughran was still smiling as Andrew McNamara drove Hi Cloy ahead of Fota Island after a dour struggle.
4. But there is to be no Champion Chase bid from Hi Cloy, who has designs on the Grand National over four and a half miles, no less.
5. In the crowd was Tina Richards, an antiwar activist who is the mother of Cloy Richards, 23, who served two tours in Iraq –– and who was also investigated for wearing his uniform during protests.