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overmerry en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + merry.

Meanings

1. Excessively merry.
   • I'll in to counsel them; haply my presence May well abate the over-merry spleen, c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act INDUCTION, scene i]:
   • It would never do to turn up overmerry, plus the fact that he was expected to make a speech on this ghastly occasion. 2014, Elizabeth Dumpleton, On Looking Back, page 125:

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