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!
dennis is more clever than bill, but they do like each other and have a nice rapport/friendship it seems.
he is totally out of his mind on the oil companies though, just deranged on that score. sitting there listening to her say that she would set an arbitrary level for oil co. profits and then start taxing above it, and not calling her on it. though, as he told miller who called him on that, he could have gone after her on this stuff but wanted to cover more subject areas.
Reverend Wright stirred the pot to annoy
While Obama just tried playing coy
But an internal poll
Cast Barack as Bob Dole
Speaking gently was starting to cloy
Nicely done. A+ for you.
They're both wrong. He's simply a narcissist.
pretty in pink! (ok, gag me!)
you have kind of a sick love affair with BORe.....kinda like his choice of phone sex...slightly kinky ;^)
how much you wanna bet she had her ponytail coming through a baseball cap in the back? uh huh.... how many of those types we see in the parking lots at school are really excon drug fiend prison escapees.... ; )
oh, puhlease......saying a rosary while breaking her out of jail? LOL I don’t think it works that way
That's why she calls OReally, Mr.O.....
ohhhh, I love limericks! excellent!
i take people as they are. i have friends who are impossibly self-absorbed, obnox braggarts etc. but they have redeeming qualities that allow me to get beyond whatever aggravating foibles they may have and to like and enjoy their company despite them. that’s me and Mr. O. i see redeeming qualities, he makes me laugh my butt off at times. sometimes with him, often, at him.
we are treated to 2 limericks in class today! LOL....very good!
LOL
i don’t think he’s a bad looking guy. as we used to say back in the day, if i had a gun to my head.... ; )
yeah, my hubby cannot understand why I can get along with some of our squad members........LOL
he can be self-deprecating and that excuses a lot. an obnox braggart who takes himself seriously, i can not handle.
He refers to himself in the third person as, “Your humble correspondent.”
Secret smacked me upside the head when I referred to myself in the third person, once.
O’Really cloys the Pantsuit
As she claws for power.
Strange times indeed.
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