cloying (verb)

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• cloy — verb [usu. as adjective cloying] disgust or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment. Derivatives cloyingly adverb Origin ME: shortening of obs. accloy stop up, choke , from OFr. encloyer drive a nail into …   English new terms dictionary

• cloy — UK [klɔɪ] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms cloy : present tense I/you/we/they cloy he/she/it cloys present participle cloying past tense cloyed past participle cloyed to make you feel sick or annoyed by being too sweet or too pleasant The… …   English dictionary

• sweetness — noun 1 sweet smell/taste ADJECTIVE ▪ natural ▪ cloying (esp. BrE), sickly ▪ the sickly sweetness of incense … OF SWEETNESS ▪ hint …   Collocations dictionary

• mush — mush1 [mʌʃ] noun 1》 a soft, wet, pulpy mass. 2》 cloying sentimentality. 3》 N. Amer. thick maize porridge. verb [usu. as adjective mushed] reduce to mush. Derivatives mushily adverb mushiness noun …   English new terms dictionary

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• satiate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. sate, satisfy; cloy, jade, make blasé; quench, slake, pall; glut, gorge, surfeit, bore; spoil. See sufficiency. Ant., leave wanting, disappoint. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, fill …   English dictionary for students

• cloy — [ klɔı ] verb intransitive to make you feel sick or annoyed by being too sweet or too pleasant: The smell of her cheap perfume soon began to cloy. ╾ cloy|ing [ klɔııŋ ] adjective: the movie s cloying sentimentality …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• syrup — /ˈsɪrəp / (say siruhp) noun 1. any of various sweet, more or less viscid liquids, consisting of fruit, juices, water, etc., boiled with sugar. 2. → molasses. 3. any of various solutions of sugar used in pharmacy. 4. any of various thick sweet… …  

• mush — ► NOUN 1) a soft, wet, pulpy mass. 2) cloying sentimentality. ► VERB ▪ reduce to mush. ORIGIN apparently a variant of MASH(Cf. ↑mash) …   English terms dictionary