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Spanish22 Oct 2026food

empalagar

em-pah-lah-GAR[empalaˈɣaɾ]

to be too sweet to finish — a pudding, or a person

Closest in English: cloying, cloy, sickly. None of them covers it.

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The story

The RAE gives it two lives: food too sweet to get through, and a person too sweet to bear. Spanish uses the second freely, so a suitor who sends nine messages a day is empalagoso. English keeps the job for cloying, a word more often written than said.

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  1. Which language is it from?Spanish
  2. Which feeling does it carry?Slightly queasy from too much richness
  3. Where would you hear it?A third slice of chocolate cake
  4. What does it mean?To turn the stomach with sweetness

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Round two, feeling, was where most points went.

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