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English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
cloying
- present participle and gerund of cloy
Adjective
cloying (comparative more cloying, superlative most cloying)
- Unpleasantly excessive.
- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
- Excessively sweet.
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excessively sweet
- Catalan: embafador
- Czech: přeslazený (cs)
- Danish: vammelsød
- Dutch: mierzoet (nl), stroperig (nl), zeemzoet (nl)
- Finnish: imelä (fi), äitelä (fi)
- French: écœurant (fr)
- German: süßlich (de), rührselig (de), gefühlsduselig
- Hungarian: émelyítő (hu), túl édes
- Irish: rómhilis
- Italian: sdolcinato (it), stucchevole (it)
- Japanese: 甘ったるい (ja) (あまったるい, amattarui)
- Russian: слаща́вый (ru) (slaščávyj), при́торный (ru) (prítornyj)
- Spanish: empalagoso (es)
- Swedish: sliskig (sv), sötsliskig (sv)
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