cloy
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verb \ˈklȯi\Definition of CLOY
transitive verb
: to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing
intransitive verb
: to cause surfeit
See Origin of CLOY
Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo-French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail
First Known Use: 1528
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