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Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude;
uncivil; ill-bred; boorish; rustic; untutored.

Clown"ish*ness, n. The manners
of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior.

That plainness which the alamode people call
clownishness.

Locke.

Cloy (kloi), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F.
clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L.
clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the
harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.

Speed.

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite;
to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of
appetite

By bare imagination of a feast?

Shak.

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
satisfying.

Dryden.

3. To penetrate or pierce; to
wound.

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly
cloyed.


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