overcloy

Etymology

From over- + cloy.

overcloy means To fill beyond satiety. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 73 out of 100.

Why this word is great

OVERCLOY — [Verb] To fill or supply to the point of excess, causing disgust or loathing. Formed within English by derivation from the prefix over- ("excessively") and the verb cloy ("to satiate to the point of disgust"), itself from Middle English acloien, from Old French encloer ("to drive a nail into, to obstruct"), ultimately from Latin clavus ("nail"). Unlike "surfeit," which suggests a wearying general abundance, or "satiate," which implies a contented fullness, to overcloy is to be pinned by a specific, sickening richness. It is the third slice of an impossibly dense torte, its icing now a gritty mortar; the perfumed air of a hothouse where no leaf can stir; the suffocating weight of unearned praise that adheres like syrup. The nail of plenty is driven clean through the palate.

verb

To fill beyond satiety.“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.”