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overegged

overegged is the alternative form of over-egged.

overegged is the simple past and past participle of overegg.

Meaning of over-egged

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

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...

Questions about overegged

What is overegged the alternative form of?
Overegged is the alternative form of over-egged.

Words near overegged in the dictionary

  1. overeffusive
  2. overeffusively
  3. overeffusiveness
  4. overegg
  5. overegg the pudding
  6. overegged
  7. overegging
  8. overeggs
  9. overelaborate
  10. overelaborated
  11. overelaborately

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overegged (page history and authors); over-egged (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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