over-egged

adjective

Overly embellished or exaggerated.

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Meanings

over-egged1

adjectiveover-egged (not comparable)

alternative overegged

  1. not comparableOverly 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

over-egged2

verb

alternative overegged

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of over-egg

Origin

over-egged · adjective

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

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over-egged · verb

From over-egg + -ed.

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APA

over-egged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-egged

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“over-egged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-egged. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “over-egged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/over-egged.

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