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English
Etymology
From over- + cloy.
Verb
overcloy (third-person singular simple present overcloys, present participle overcloying, simple past and past participle overcloyed)
- (transitive, dated) To fill beyond satiety.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, / A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants, / Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth / To desperate ventures and assured destruction.
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