CLOYING

cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly

(adjective) overly sweet

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

cloying

present participle of cloy

Adjective

cloying (comparative more cloying, superlative most cloying)

Unpleasantly excessive.

Excessively sweet.

Synonyms

• (unpleasantly excessive): exaggerated

• (excessively sweet): syrupy, treacly, oversweet, saccharine

Source: Wiktionary

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CLOY

Cloy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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