单词 | over-cloying |
释义 | over-cloyingadj. Excessively cloying; excessively sentimental; too filling or satiating. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > causing satiety fulsomec1430 surfeiting?1569 glutting1574 over-cloying1592 cloysome1603 gluttish1655 palling1667 saturating1684 cloying1752 satiating1769 unwearable1846 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B He neuer pleasd his fathers eyes till now, Nor fild my hart with ouercloying ioyes. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. E 3v To winne him with ouer-cloying kindnesse. 1622 S. Rowlands Good Newes & Bad Newes sig. F I doe not care for ouer-cloying dishes, So that I may attaine to these two wishes. 1994 Financial Times (Nexis) 26 Apr. 21 Over-cloying relationships with industry can harm economic performance. 2001 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 21 Sept. 26 [He] gives backbone to an otherwise over-cloying plot. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1592 |
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