单词	cloying
释义	cloyingcloy‧ing /ˈklɔɪ-ɪŋ/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINcloying Origin: 1500-1600 cloy ‘to be cloying’ (16-21 centuries), from accloy ‘to make unable to walk’ (14-18 centuries), from Old French encloer ‘to drive a nail in’, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin clavus ‘nail’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES the cloying smell of cheap perfume The novel's plot is interesting, but the dialogue is just too cloying. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a pie filling it is rich and dark without the cloying and heavy qualities of mincemeat. I got up, thick-headed, with a cloying mouth. There was a cloying fusty smell rising from below, like drying clothes. These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent. This cloying commercial clamour had the New Zealand public wound up. Thesaurus THESAURUS► sweet sweet food or drink has had sugar added or contains natural sugars: · Italian oranges are very sweet.· a cup of hot sweet tea ► sugary sweet because a lot of sugar has been added: · Sugary foods are bad for your teeth. ► sickly British English tasting unpleasantly sweet: · The dessert was rather sweet and sickly.· a sickly sweet fruit drink ► cloying tasting or smelling unpleasantly sweet: · I find strawberry and peach drinks too cloying.· the cloying smell of fish oil 1a cloying attitude or quality annoys you because it is too sweet or nice:  cloying sentimentality2cloying food or smells are sweet and make you feel sick:  the thick cloying smell of cheap perfume► see thesaurus at sweet—cloyingly adverb
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