overcarking
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overcarking (comparative more overcarking, superlative most overcarking)
- (archaic) Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
- being solicitously overcarking for the future
Verb
[edit]overcarking
- present participle and gerund of overcark
References
[edit]- “overcarking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.