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overdresser

overdresser noun: one who overdresses.

Noun

overdresser (plural overdressers)

  1. One who overdresses.
    • Young men generally have a horror of girls who make them conspicuous, who are flamboyant about cosmetics, who are poseurs, overdressers, who, when asked to a beer party, insist on milk or a highball[…]1939, Ladies' Home Journal, volume 56, page 65
    • An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.2004, David Ohle, The Age of Sinatra, page 106

Forms of overdresser

pluraloverdressers

Origin of overdresser

From overdress + -er.

Questions about overdresser

What does overdresser mean?
Overdresser means one who overdresses.
What part of speech is overdresser?
Overdresser is a noun.
What is the plural of overdresser?
The plural of overdresser is overdressers.

Words near overdresser in the dictionary

  1. overdrenched
  2. overdrenches
  3. overdrenching
  4. overdress
  5. overdressed
  6. overdresser
  7. overdressers
  8. overdresses
  9. overdressiness
  10. overdressing
  11. overdressy

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