Causing disgust or tiredness through being excessively sweet or pleasant.
From 'cloy' plus the suffix '-some,' which creates adjectives meaning 'characterized by' or 'tending to' (like 'tiresome' or 'lonesome'). A variant form of 'cloying.'
This archaic adjective uses an old English pattern—we'd say 'cloying' today, but 'cloysome' has a heavier, more Germanic feel that was preferred in Middle English texts.
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