CLOY


Meaning of CLOY in English

verb Etymology: Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of a~en 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 Date: 1528 transitive verb to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing, intransitive verb to cause surfeit, see: satiate

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