overgreedy

See also: over-greedy

English

Alternative forms

• over-greedy

Etymology

From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- +‎ greedy.

Adjective

overgreedy (comparative more overgreedy, superlative most overgreedy)

1. Greedy to excess.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     The commonwealth is sick of their own choice / Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.

   • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 270:

     'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'