Definitions for cloys

cloys cloy

Spelling: [kloi]
IPA: /klɔɪ/

Cloys is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in cloys (closy).

Definitions for cloys

verb (used with object)

  1. to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure, etc.; surfeit; satiate.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance:

Origin of cloys

1350-1400; aphetic variant of Middle English acloyen Middle French enclo(y)er Late Latin inclāvāre to nail in, equivalent to in- in-2 + -clāvāre, verbal deri

Examples for cloys

She was not like a song—even your sweetest song—which, heard too often, cloys, its phrases dropping to senseless notes.

It was an exquisite vigor of sweetness, not in the least the kind that cloys.

This fruit is most refreshing—but it's curious how it cloys on you!

A perfect day in April far excels a perfect day in June, because it provokes and stimulates while the latter sates and cloys.

And Brian had found in Joan's face the vigor of sweetness, not the kind that cloys.

We then say that the classic does not satisfy us, and that the "Grecian cloys us with his perfectness."

A too constant man is like an overstrong sweet: he cloys us.

Word Value for cloys
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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