cloy, pall
(verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; “Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite”
surfeit, cloy
(verb) supply or feed to surfeit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cloy (third-person singular simple present cloys, present participle cloying, simple past and past participle cloyed)
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
• (fill or choke up): block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up
• (satiate): fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up
• (fill to loathing): jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit
• coly
Source: Wiktionary
Cloy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] Etym: [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
