cloys
Meaning of cloys
verb, 3rd person present
- disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment.
a curious bitter-sweetness that cloyed her senses
the first sip gives a malty taste that never cloys
late Middle English: shortening of obsolete accloy ‘stop up, choke’, from Old French encloyer ‘drive a nail into’, from medieval Latin inclavare, from clavus ‘a nail’.
Information about cloys
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of cloys is: cloy.
- Languages in which cloys is used:
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Hyphenation of cloys
cloys
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- cloys is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cloys synonyms
Meaning a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb:
Meaning containing much sugar:
Meaning having the consistency or sweetness of syrup:
Meaning excessively sweet or sentimental:
Meaning (of food) containing or coated with honey:
Meaning excessively sweet in taste:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:
Meaning arousing revulsion or strong indignation:
Meaning sentimental in an exaggerated or false way:
Meaning self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental:
Meaning of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia:
Meaning excessively or affectedly quaint, pretty, or sentimental:
Meaning soft and pulpy:
Meaning resembling, consisting of, or covered with slush:
Meaning careless and unsystematic; excessively casual:
Meaning cute to a sentimental or mawkish extent:
Meaning attractive in a pretty or endearing way:
Meaning soft and sticky:
Meaning weak, ineffectual, or sloppily sentimental:
Meaning resembling treacle in consistency, taste, or appearance:
Meaning like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency:
Meaning trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental:
Meaning unpleasantly sticky:
Meaning trite and sentimental:
Meaning mawkishly over-sentimental:
Words that rhyme with cloys
loys, Aloys, Zircaloys, zircaloys, accloys, overcloys, saveloys, Permalloys, alloys, ferroalloys, permalloys, superalloys, zircoloys, coemploys, counterploys, deploys, disemploys, employs, misemploys, ploys, redeploys, reemploys
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