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Cloy 吃甜食)生腻,吃腻 14c Late Latin Nail Klɔi V

单词 cloy
音标 [klɔi]
解释 v. (吃甜食)生腻,吃腻
红宝书 【英】 n. (吃甜食)生腻,吃腻 (to surfeit by too much of something sweet, rich; satiate)
字源 cloy (v.)
"weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, from Middle English cloyen "hinder movement, encumber" (late 14c.), a shortening of accloyen (early 14c.), from Old French encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," figuratively "to hinder, check, stop, curb," from Late Latin inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing," from Latin clavus "a nail" (see slot (n.2)).
Accloye is a hurt that cometh of shooing, when a Smith driveth a nail in the quick, which make him to halt. [Edward Topsell, "The History of Four-footed Beasts," 1607]
The figurative meaning "fill to a satiety, overfill" is attested for accloy from late 14c. Related: Cloyed; cloying.
不择手段背单词
趣味全助记 【记】音:可乐,可乐喝多了嘴里会发腻,太甜;clay吃多的时候吃什么都象是吃土;

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