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overegging

overegging is the present participle and gerund of overegg.

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 overegging

What is overegging the present participle and gerund of?
Overegging is the present participle and gerund of overegg.

Words near overegging in the dictionary

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

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