Cloyed vs Coyed - What's the difference?
cloyed | coyed |
(cloy)
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.
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, 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.}}
(coy)
(dated) Bashful, shy, retiring.
(archaic) Quiet, reserved, modest.
Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
Soft, gentle, hesitating.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To calm or soothe.
To allure; to decoy.
* Bishop Rainbow
As verbs the difference between cloyed and coyed
is that cloyed is (cloy) while coyed is (coy).cloyed
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(head)cloy
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(en verb)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, surfeitcoyed
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(head)Anagrams
*coy
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) coi, earlier .Adjective
(er)- Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
Derived terms
* coyly * coynessVerb
(en verb)- Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy .
- A wiser generation, who have the art to coy the fonder sort into their nets.