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overbattered en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From over- + battered.

Meanings

  1. Coated in too much batter.
    • The squid-ink foam and yuzu kosho aioli may get along well with a fried oyster sitting on a drum of rice rolled in nori, but the oyster was so overbattered and overcooked I couldn’t tell. 2015 October 27, Pete Wells, “O Ya Riffs on Sushi and Sashimi in Kips Bay”, in New York Times:

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