Hyphenation of cloying

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word cloying? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

cloy-ing

Definitions of cloying:

1.	Overly sweet

Synonyms of cloying:

adj	saccharine, syrupy, treacly, sweet

Last hyphenations of this language

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