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over-egg

over-egg is the alternative form of overegg.

Meaning of overegg

Verb

overegg (third-person singular simple present overeggs, present participle overegging, simple past and past participle overegged)

  1. (idiomatic, regional, transitive) Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo.
    • 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.1839 September, Nimrod [pseudonym; Charles James Apperley], “A Hunting Tour in the Midland Counties: The Quorn: The Belvoir: And the Cottesmore”, in Craven [pseudonym; John William Carleton], editor...

Forms of over-egg

third-person singular presentover-eggs
present participleover-egging
past participleover-egged
pastover-egged

Phrases with over-egg

Questions about over-egg

What is over-egg the alternative form of?
Over-egg is the alternative form of overegg.

Words near over-egg in the dictionary

  1. over-educate
  2. over-educated
  3. over-educates
  4. over-educating
  5. over-education
  6. over-egg
  7. over-egg the pudding
  8. over-egged
  9. over-egged the pudding
  10. over-egging
  11. over-egging the pudding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: over-egg (page history and authors); overegg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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