[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cloy \cloy\ kloi, v. t. imp.  p. p. cloyed kloid; p. pr.
    vb. n. cloying. oe. cloer to nail up, f. clouer, fr.
   of. clo nail, f. clou, fr. l. clavus nail. cf. 3d clove.
   1. to fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. obs.
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            the duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
            sinking ships, laden with stones.     --speed.
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   2. to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
      to loathing; to surfeit.
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            who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite
            by bare imagination of a feast?       --shak.
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            he sometimes cloys his readers instead of
            satisfying.                           --dryden.
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   3. to penetrate or pierce; to wound.
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            which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
                                                  --spenser.
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            he never shod horse but he cloyed him. --bacon.
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   4. to spike, as a cannon. obs. --johnson.
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   5. to stroke with a claw. obs. --shak.
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see also:
cloyed cloying clove 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cloying
     adj : overly sweet syn: saccharine, syrupy, treacly
see also:
saccharine syrupy treacly 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

63 moby thesaurus words for "cloying":
   bad, barfy, bathetic, beery, brackish, cloysome, fetid, filling,
   foul, fulsome, gooey, gushing, high, icky, jading, luscious,
   maggoty, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, namby-pamby, nasty, nauseant,
   nauseating, nauseous, noisome, nostalgic, nostomanic, noxious,
   offensive, overfilling, overripe, oversentimental,
   oversentimentalized, oversweet, poisonous, rancid, rank,
   rebarbative, rich, romantic, rotten, saccharine, sappy, satiating,
   sating, satisfying, sentimental, sentimentalized, sickening,
   sickly-sweet, sloppy, soft, spoiled, sticky, stinking, surfeiting,
   tear-jerking, teary, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

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