[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That cloys; satiating; † clogging.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. i. II. xxxi. Rend the thick curtain of cold cloying night.
1752. Fielding, Amelia, Wks. 1775, X. 239. With regard to love I declare I never found anything cloying in it.
1807–8. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 381. It had a cloying sweetness that palled upon the taste.
1815. L. Hunt, Feast Poets, &c. 27, notes. The charge against Pope of a monotonous and cloying versification is not new.
Hence Cloyingness.
1862. Sat. Rev., XIV. 460/1. The honeyed cup, with all its cloyingness.
