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verb

Cloy v. t. (past & past part. cloyed; pres. part. cloying)

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."

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?" "He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying."

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. "Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed." "He never shod horse but he cloyed him."

To spike, as a cannon. (Obs.)

To stroke with a claw. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Cloying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cloying" Quotes from Famous Books

... impalpable wrapper about her conscious mind, so that at times she appeared to herself as two persons—that consciousness stood aloof in expectation of disgust, revulsion, horror. It came as a confused surprise that she felt nothing of the kind. A cloying sweetness, a sensation purely physical, as though a syrup had been poured into all the channels of her nerves, began in her throat, rushed through body and limbs. The sweet tide surged backward, ...

— The Readjustment • Will Irwin

... his employments he had written, "Stemmata Dudleiana." He is doubting whether or not to publish, "to utter," some of his poetical compositions: he is doubting, and asks Harvey's advice, whether or not to dedicate them to His Excellent Lordship, "lest by our much cloying their noble ears he should gather contempt of myself, or else seem rather for gain and commodity to do it, and some sweetness that I have already tasted." Yet, he thinks, that when occasion is so fairly offered of estimation ...

— Spenser - (English Men of Letters Series) • R. W. Church

... other drugs on the ivory shelves—magic preparations that transported him to fabulous fields. There was a work by Hecataesus, with which he could visit Hyperborea, that land where happiness was a birthright, inalienable at that; yet a happiness so sweet that it must have been cloying; for the people who enjoyed it, and with it the appanage of limitless life, killed themselves from sheer ennui. Theopompus disclosed to him a stranger vista—a continent beyond the ocean—one where there were immense cities, and where two rivers flowed—the River of Pleasure and ...

— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus

... liqueur, thick and cloying. Brigit loathed it, but could not resist Joyselle, who, the parrot on his left wrist, poured the sweet stuff into little glasses and handed ...

— The Halo • Bettina von Hutten