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Cloy vs Loy - What's the difference?

cloy | loy |

As a verb cloy

is to fill up or choke up; to stop up.

As a noun loy is

(ireland) a type of spade used in ireland.

cloy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
  • To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
  • To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}

    Synonyms

    * (fill or choke up) block, block up, choke, fill, fill up, stop up, stuff, stuff up * (satiate) fill up, glut, gorge, sate, satiate, satisfy, stodge, stuff, stuff up * (fill to loathing) jade, nauseate, pall, sicken, surfeit

    loy

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland) A type of spade used in Ireland.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 28:
    • They were wielding the tools of their livelihood, but as weapons – scythes, hoes, loys , billhooks.
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