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Overfull

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
excessively filled; full to overflowing not-comparable

Adjective

1
exceeding demand wordnet

Noun

1
A full house that beats someone else's full house.
"[…] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).

Etymology 2

From over- + full house.

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