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!
Be careful. I hear that is the hotel of choice for wedding night fisticuffs.
Yikes Robert..........that sounds hellacious........
sounds like you have pulled rough duty, robt. they give you any conjugal visits with ronnie? ; )
is Tioga County still icebound? (I used to live in Broome)
We thawed out and have buds on the trees, tulips and green grass.........and a mama bear with her four cubs. one day it’ sandals and the next it’s socks and shoes.....one day t-shirts and shorts, the next long pants and a sweatshirt....but summer is coming. Spent most of yesterday in Broome County....running around the vestal parkway, north endicott and johnson city......fun day...rme.
they dump you in the pit of a tank and don’t send ya coffee? the horror! —we still miss your smiling face!
Why are you inside the tank? There’s nothing interesting in there that I know of.
That's sweet of you to say. ;-)
When Carly Simon was singing, incriminatingly, "I bet you think this song is about you" what was her point? The song was about him. Is it some female thing I don't understand?
OK I read the article. His “spending” sounds like tax cuts to me.
Her Thighness does "Pink Cloyed" in Kokomo, IN...
I didn’t even read it...LOL.....after wading through the rhetoric in that article he looks good. that’s scarier yet!
i don’t know, i don’t generally GET female mindgames kind of stuff. and no, though you’re so vain, that post really wasn’t about you ; ) the foibles extant in this classroom are...rather indescribable...
i’m hungry. what should i do?
Eat...............
yeah, but what though?
there are two at home today. one has teacher workdays today and tomorrow, the other one, not to be outdone, was up puking at 5 am.
LOL!!!!
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