present participle and gerund of cloy
Unpleasantly excessive.
The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
Excessively sweet.
Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
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