Overegg
//ˌəʊvəɹˈɛɡ// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo. idiomatic, regional, transitive
"But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland."
Example
More examples"But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland."
Etymology
From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + egg, from the phrase over-egg the pudding, a reference to adding too many eggs to a pudding and thereby ruining it.
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