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Cloying definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOYING, ppr. Filling; filling to satety, or disgust.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1594 disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess <cloying sweetness>; also excessively sweet or sentimental <a cloying romantic comedy> • cloyingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloy 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. --Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use cloying to describe something that you find unpleasant because it is much too sweet, or too sentimental. Her cheap, cloying scent enveloped him... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloysome, fetid, filling, foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, jading, luscious, maggoty, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious, offensive, overfilling, overripe, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank, rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, satiating, sating, satisfying, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening, sickly-sweet, sloppy, soft, spoiled, sticky, stinking, surfeiting, tear-jerking, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky