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cloy

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To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

To spike, as a cannon.

To stroke with a claw.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. Charles Caleb Colton

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. Publilius Syrus

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. William Shakespeare

Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite Source: Internet

The kind of place where each breath varnishes the back of your throat with the oilyslick cloy of patchouli or the reek of fermented cabbage. Source: Internet

Its a major plus that it doesnt cloy up and you dont have to extract it from the roof of your mouth like peanut butter (something that always happened with the other soda breads I have had. Source: Internet

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