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▪ I. cloying, vbl. n.|ˈklɔɪɪŋ|
[f. cloy v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb cloy, in its different senses.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke v. (R.), Lest..to muche presence may be a cloiyng to them. 1572L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Horses (1627) 142 The cloying of a horse is an ill hurt, which commeth by euill-shooing. 1625Markham Souldiers Accid. 8 Vpon Cloying, how to vnbreetch them [guns]. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 84. 3/1 When Enjoyment comes to Cloying There's an end then of Enjoying.
▪ II. ˈcloying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That cloys; satiating; † clogging.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xxxi, Rend the thick curtain of cold cloying night. 1752Fielding Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 239 With regard to love I declare I never found anything cloying in it. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 381 It had a cloying sweetness that palled upon the taste. 1815L. Hunt Feast Poets, &c. 27 notes, The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new.
Hence ˈcloyingness.
1862Sat. Rev. XIV. 460/1 The honeyed cup, with all its cloyingness. |