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Definition of the day : « cloy »
- verb overfill
- To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust.
- Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
- But I shall tire you with a theme with which I would not wish to cloy you beforehand.
- Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
- Over-sentimental and apt to cloy, it is eminently poetical and full of melody.
- Extract from : « Masters of French Music » by Arthur Hervey
- Yea but, said Carpalin, were it not good to cloy all their ordnance?
- Extract from : « Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. » by Francois Rabelais
- Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
- Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by Various
- And he proceeded to read with a sneering imitation of Zoie's cloy sweetness.
- Extract from : « Baby Mine » by Margaret Mayo
- But plenteous as are the flowers of eloquence with which he presents us, their perfume, their sweetness, do not cloy.
- Extract from : « The London Pulpit » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- Wealth could not cloy, nor grandeur overpower, with such a mate; that was perhaps the substance of her thought.
- Extract from : « My Lord Duke » by E. W. Hornung
- No apricot Or greengage tart my heart hath won;Their sweetness doth but cloy and clot.
- Extract from : « The Wallypug in London » by G. E. Farrow
- Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 » by Various