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cloy·ing       [kloi-ing] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.causing or tending to cause disgust or aversion through excess: a perfume of cloying sweetness.
2.overly ingratiating or sentimental.

[Origin: 1540–50; cloy + -ing2]

cloy·ing·ly, adverb
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cloy       (kloi)  Pronunciation Key 
v.   cloyed, cloy·ing, cloys

v.   tr.
To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit.

v.   intr.
To be too filling, rich, or sweet.


[Short for obsolete accloy, to clog, from Middle English acloien, from Old French encloer, to drive a nail into, from Medieval Latin inclāvāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin clāvāre, to nail (from clāvus, nail).]

cloy'ing·ly adv., cloy'ing·ness n.
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cloying

adjective
overly sweet 

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