'Cloying' definitions:
Definition of 'cloying'
From: WordNet
adjective
Definition of 'Cloying'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [1913 Webster]
- [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. [1913 Webster]
- Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cloying'
From: 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