Definition of "cloy" [cloy]

• To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit. (verb-transitive)
• To be too filling, rich, or sweet. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bad as was to me this detection by San Carlo, this-frost in July, this blow from a bride, there was still a worse, namely the cloy or satiety of the saints."
• "In the words of this table _oi_ and _oy_ are pronounced alike. coy coil join loin toil soil foist boil coin cloy point broil joist hoist joint enjoy voice royal noise spoil moist avoid choice annoy doily employ oyster anoint poison boiler"
• "Yet predictable and familiar though they may be, in "Falling Skies" they do not cloy."