"weary by too much, fill to loathing, surfeit," 1520s, 源自中古英語 cloyen "hinder movement, encumber"（14世紀晚期），縮寫自 accloyen（14世紀早期），源自古法語 encloer "to fasten with a nail, grip, grasp," 比喻意義爲 "to hinder, check, stop, curb"，源自晚期拉丁語 inclavare "drive a nail into a horse's foot when shoeing"，源自拉丁語 clavus "a nail"（源自 PIE 詞根 *klau- "hook"）。
Accloye is a hurt that cometh of shooing, when a Smith driveth a nail in the quick, which make him to halt. [Edward Topsell, "The History of Four-footed Beasts," 1607]
Accloye 是一種由於馬蹄鐵釘子釘入馬蹄時傷害的疼痛，這使得馬蹄受傷。[愛德華·託普塞爾，《四足獸的歷史》，1607]
比喻意義 "fill to a satiety, overfill" 自14世紀晚期起可從 accloy 中證實。相關詞彙： Cloyed； cloying。
