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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cloy/klɔɪ/
▶verb (usu. as adj. 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’.



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