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Cloying

//ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Unpleasantly excessive.

    "The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away."

  2. 2
    Excessively sweet.

    "Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    overly sweet wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of cloy form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.

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