ˈklȯi verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: short for accloy
transitive verb
1. obsolete : to prick (a horse) with a nail in shoeing
2. obsolete : to fill or choke up : stop up : clog
3. : to surfeit or make weary with an excess usually of something originally pleasing
Cordelia has been cloyed by her sisters' excessive protestations of affection — Rebecca West
intransitive verb
: to cause surfeit : be or become insipid or distasteful usually through an excess of an originally pleasurable quality (as sweetness)
persons and places had begun to cloy — Time
few pleasures sooner cloy than reading what the reviewers say — A.T.Quiller-Couch
Synonyms: see satiate