An alternative or archaic spelling of cloy; something that causes disgust through excess.
An older variant spelling of 'cloy,' from the Middle English period when English spelling was less standardized. The '-e' was often appended to words to indicate pronunciation or formality.
This word is a fossil of English—it shows how the same word could be spelled multiple ways in older texts, and linguists use these variants to track how pronunciation and spelling conventions changed over centuries.
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