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over-egged

over-egged adjective: overly embellished or exaggerated. Also the simple past and past participle of over-egg.

Adjective

over-egged (not comparable)

  1. Overly embellished or exaggerated.
    • He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy.2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Also used as

over-egged is also the simple past and past participle of over-egg.

Forms of over-egged

alternative formoveregged

Origin of over-egged

From the phrase over-egg the pudding; over- + egged.

From over-egg + -ed.

Phrases with over-egged

Questions about over-egged

What does over-egged mean?
Over-egged means overly embellished or exaggerated.
What part of speech is over-egged?
Over-egged is an adjective.

Words near over-egged in the dictionary

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

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