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overcarking

overcarking adjective: too anxious; expressing or taking too much care. Also the present participle and gerund of overcark.

Adjective

overcarking (comparative more overcarking, superlative most overcarking)

  1. (archaic) Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.
    • being solicitously overcarking for the future1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Also used as

overcarking is also the present participle and gerund of overcark.

Forms of overcarking

comparativemore overcarking
superlativemost overcarking

Origin of overcarking

From over- + carking.

Questions about overcarking

What does overcarking mean?
Overcarking means too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.
What part of speech is overcarking?
Overcarking is an adjective.

Words near overcarking in the dictionary

  1. overcarelessness
  2. overcares
  3. overcaring
  4. overcark
  5. overcarked
  6. overcarking
  7. overcarks
  8. overcarriage
  9. overcarriages
  10. overcarried
  11. overcarries

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