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overeggs

overeggs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overeggs

What is overeggs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overeggs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overegg.

Words near overeggs in the dictionary

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

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