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!
Any possibility for hockey scholarships?
God bless ya! LOL
You’re readings books in which the characters read books? That doesn’t sound very exciting. It’s like watching people on TV watch TV.
LOL!!
I used the laundered money to buy our candy bars! The couple that own the store roared laughing because the cash was still damp!
haven’t thought that far ahead with him. though we will have to start in earnest next year with that kind of thing.
did you always know what you wanted to be, study etc. when you were in HS? my brother certainly didn’t. xsboy has no idea. xshub was a nerd, driven, focused etc. I was pretty much too. i think boys can be late bloomers. xshub gets frustrated with him, but based on my bro turning out ok [at xsboy’s age he was dead set on being a motox mechanic] i thinke he will be alright. i have several male coworkers who are much more laid back about their sons underachieving and i think they themselves must have been late bloomers to be accepting of it in their sons.
I’m not so sure I was thinking much about careers in 9th or 10th grade, but I certainly knew that I wanted to look into engineering by 11th. When I was younger, I thought law might be an option, but I didn’t have great public speaking skills and didn’t really relish the idea of extra years of school and grueling tests memorizing cases and cases.
I was good in everything, but had more affinity for math and science. I figured studying electrical engineering would be a good way to work with computers and neat stuff like that, plus I knew it was a field that could pay well.
I think it goes back to a physics experiment in 10th or 11th grade. We had to time a ball rolling down an incline, compute its speed and then determine the correct position to place a cup. So after the ball rolled down the incline and off the table, it would land right in the cup.
It was like a lightbulb went off. “This stuff is actually useful in the real world!”
And that’s what engineers do, they use math and science to do useful things. And engineering programming (controls) is when you tell things how to behave. It’s a power rush to know your thoughts are being put into action to make otherwise inert lumps of matter perform as intended.
of course you were ; )
I threw a little in my mouth when I saw her pics. As one poster said, inside her there’s a fat woman waiting to burst forth.
i literally laughed out loud when reading that line.
Speaking of your tagline, are you voting for Hill or Barry next Tuesday? Or are you one of the rare ones voting in the Republican primary.
i have said many times, you put a blonde wig on a broomhandle and mount a pair of boobs on it and you would have freeper men lusting for it. i don’t think she looks remotely fat or waiting to be fat. i think she was fired for cause, for missing excess amounts of work, and i think splaying her boobs out for men to ogle on fishing trips sets a poor example for her three kids, be they girls or boys.
Some kids took honors math and science. Some took honors English and social studies. Some took all of them.
OK, I was horrible in art. Thankfully, they stopped trying to push that on everyone after 8th grade. My art teacher chastised me once:
“8th graders don’t draw stick figures!”
“I do.”
She failed to appreciate how I disproved her assertion.
“I got a crush on Obama.”
Yup. We’re all just shallow, meaningless, narcissistic old pervs.
Good, the Cackling Witch is getting to close for my comfort.
yes, some of us did. we didn’t have honors anything in my day, but there were different academic tracks. For the college bound there was academic/scientific and there was academic/cultural. i completed the requirements for both tracks. i had advanced chem and physics senior year as well as taking Spanish 4 and German 2. i probably could have made it through engineering school at Pitt, but i was never interested in that. once i figured out after freshman year that i wasn’t likely to get into med school i wanted out of the math/sci altogether. my niece is graduating HS this year and is going to engineering school at the U of Akron. she is interested in dental school, but there is no official pre-dent program, so she will do engineering and have that as an option after 4 years. if she doesn’t like it and is not put off by more school, she can apply to dental school. i thought that was a pretty good plan.
lets add in “not tethered to reality” shall we? ; )
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