Cloy

To “cloy” (KLOY) – from the Middle English for “to clog” – is to become distasteful through an excess of something that was originally pleasing (sweetness, richness, etc.).

Example (as used by Jeffrey Tayler in The Atlantic): “The opulence, the music, the gouty food – all start to cloy my senses.”

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