Overegg
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛɡ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overegg is a verb meaning (transitive, idiomatic, originally UK, regional) Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo.
Meaning
(transitive, idiomatic, originally UK, regional) Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo.
Example Sentences
[Hall] Caine over-eggs the omelette but it is still a strong story.
But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.
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.
The men [in Pascal Rambert's play Actrice (2015)] 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."
Word Forms
- overeggs
- overegging
- overegged
- over-egg
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overflavour, egg crate, eggcrate, ocher, schmeer, shmear.
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