Posted on 05/01/2008 4:52:23 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
cloy \KLOY\, transitive verb:
1. To weary by excess, especially of sweetness, richness, pleasure, etc.
2. To become distasteful through an excess usually of something originally pleasing.
Example sentences:
The opulence, the music, the gouty food -- all start to cloy my senses.
-- Jeffrey Tayler, "The Moscow Rave part two: I Have Payments to Make on My Mink", Atlantic, December 31, 1997
I use orange and lemon zest in the recipe and a drizzle of soured cream at the table to take away its tendency to cloy.
-- Nigel Slater, "Cream tease", The Observer, December 14, 2003
The soft Orvieto Abboccato has just enough sweetness to please but not to cloy, a friendly character that tempts one to linger over a second glass.
-- George Pandi, "Orvieto's pleasures deserve to be savored like its wine", Boston Herald, July 18,2004
Etymology:
Cloy is short for obsolete accloy, "to clog," alteration of Middle English acloien, "to lame," from Middle French encloer, "to drive a nail into," from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in, "in" + clavus, "nail."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Italian hoagie. That’s what I had for lunch. Actually, most every Thursday. The guys on my floor go out and get these huge hoagies and we each buy a third share. Three bucks for a giant wad of meat. Toasted even.
It’s all bogus, as you’ll see from my comments here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009629/posts?page=1
that Pittsburgh would be #1 at this point, when there can't be a handful of functioning mills, plants, foundries, is ludicrous.
i stopped at Subway the other day when i was at home, and it happened to be around lunchtime, the line was OUT THE DOOR, all men.
I’m sure there is SOMETHING in your fridge.
there’s plenty in there, but my fridge is not here : )
You must be drunk too - I thought that article was horrible. I don’t think there is anything wrong with a man who loves his Mother and is willing to show it. I got the impression the Mother and son were not close at all.
Bless your heart.
Mine is home yet again today..........but not because she is sick.
OIC.........
Those perceptions are only about 100 years out of date. It’s like thinking the South still has slaves.
in the abstract i think it's great when a man loves his mother, and i would think less of any man who doesn't, but there is no getting around the dynamic of a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law. my MIL was fine, may she rest in peace, but that was mostly because we lived 8 hours drive from xshub's family, and 5 hours drive from my family. of course i want xsboy to end up with a wonderful wife, but i imagine there will be that same dynamic, husband's family v. wife's family, and am not looking forward to it. and i can tell you from now his wife will have the b!tchiest sistersinlaw going....
-all I can say to that is thank God my DIL flew the coop to England.......I shudder to think of her raising my granchildren...and her mother was worse.
I just got the impression from the article that this Mother was detached from her son. I can't see myself ever being detached.
i can’t guarantee that i won’t be hypercritical either, but i know i won’t be as bad as THOSE TWO! i thought it was more complicated than just detached, as he described it. as they get older you are torn, i would never want anyone thinking xsboy is a dork bc i am all up on him, so i would never do that. you are torn between wanting the best for them, but allowing them some freedom to make mistakes, though praying to God that the mistakes aren’t horrible ones.
Yes that is true. And admittedly, my son and I spend a lot of time together since he is homeschooled. So that probably colors my opinion as well.
A+ for you and a ping for Ceej.
i am looking at it from the perspective of him potentially leaving for college in 2 short years and even getting his drivers license this summer. two tough hurdles for a control freak like me.... : )
“Goodbye Cruel World,
I’m leaving you today.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
(I wish!)
OK -it’s official........I’m totally losing it.
I was going to run next door and grab us a couple of candy bars. But when I reached into my pocket I had no cash, no keys, no ID, no nothing.
Then I remembered all of that was in the pockets of the jeans I had been wearing yesterday........pockets I did not empty before I tossed the jeans in the washing machine a little while ago, along with all of te rest of the greasy french fry smelling clothes hubby and I were wearing while cooking at the Lodge last night......
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