| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Cloy.[Websters]
2. To be bored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have nauseated, sickened or disgusted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have crammed, stuffed or engorged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be supersaturated or glutted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be tired or jaded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have surfeited or satiated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have abhorred, detested or loathed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb cloy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cloy) | 1. Supply or feed to surfeit.[Wordnet]. 2. Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite".[Wordnet]. 3. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.[Websters]. 4. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.[Websters]. 5. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.[Websters]. 6. To spike, as a cannon.[Websters]. 7. To stroke with a claw.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: cloying, cloyed, cloys, cloyer, cloyers, cloyingly and cloyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CLOYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CLOYED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Filled; glutted; filled to satiety and lothing; spiked; pricked in shoeing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of cloy. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cloy
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| FILE CLOY | Slang in 1811 | 1: FILE, FILE CLOY, or BUNGNIPPER. A pick pocket. To file; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes generally in company with two assistants, the adam tiler, and another called the bulk or bulker, Whose business it is to jostle the person they intend t 2: TO JOCK, or JOCKUM CLOY. To enjoy a woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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