overegg
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See also: over-egg
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the phrase overegg the pudding; over- + egg.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]overegg (third-person singular simple present overeggs, present participle overegging, simple past and past participle overegged)
- (transitive) To spoil by exaggeration of an aspect of.
- 2014 July 26, “Argentina's debt saga: Unsettling times: The clock is ticking toward an Argentine default”, in The Economist[1]:
- NML insists Argentina is overegging the RUFO worry: given that the country has appealed its case all the way up to the Supreme Court and been rebuffed, a judge is unlikely to deem any deal “voluntary”.
- 2017 December 22, Laura Cappelle, “2 French Playwrights Reclaim Their Works, Bringing Them Home”, in New York Times[2]:
- The men fare less well: The husbands of both sisters overegg their Russian accents, with Jakob Öhrman, as the boisterous Pavel, left to utter inanities including, “The truth is in my alcoholism.”
- 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Janis Joplin sounds unerringly like Ray Stevens’ Bridget the Midget in places. While Raise Your Hand is a pretty undeniable Stax-on-helium workout, her version of the Bee Gees’ To Love Somebody is overegged.
Further reading
[edit]- “overegg”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “overegg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.