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over-egged en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From the phrase over-egg the pudding; over- + egged.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Overly embellished or exaggerated.
    • He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy. 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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over-egged en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From over-egg + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of over-egg
    form of over-egg

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