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Adjective: cloying  kloy-ing
  1. Overly sweet
    - saccharine, syrupy, treacly
Verb: cloy  kloy
  1. Supply or feed to surfeit
    - surfeit
     
  2. Cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing
    "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite";
    - pall

See also: sweet

Type of: fill, furnish, offer, provide, render, replete, sate, satiate, supply

Encyclopedia: Cloy, George