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overbattered

overbattered adjective: coated in too much batter.

Adjective

overbattered (comparative more overbattered, superlative most overbattered)

  1. Coated in too much batter.
    • The squid-ink foam and yuzu kosho aioli may get along well with a fried oyster sitting on a drum of rice rolled in nori, but the oyster was so overbattered and overcooked I couldn’t tell.2015 October 27, Pete Wells, “O Ya Riffs on Sushi and Sashimi in Kips Bay”, in New York Times

Forms of overbattered

comparativemore overbattered
superlativemost overbattered

Origin of overbattered

From over- + battered.

Questions about overbattered

What does overbattered mean?
Overbattered means coated in too much batter.
What part of speech is overbattered?
Overbattered is an adjective.

Words near overbattered in the dictionary

  1. overbashfulness
  2. overbathe
  3. overbathed
  4. overbathes
  5. overbathing
  6. overbattered
  7. overbattle
  8. Overbay
  9. Overbays
  10. overbeaming
  11. overbear

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