overcaffeinated

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adjective

Having ingested too much caffeine, especially in the form of coffee.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectiveovercaffeinated (comparative more overcaffeinated, superlative most overcaffeinated)

comparative more overcaffeinated · superlative most overcaffeinated

  1. Having ingested too much caffeine, especially in the form of coffee.

    It is a wonder some overcaffeinated hacker hasn't cobbled together the code to scrape all of the above into one gadget shopping supersite.

    2007 December 13, Paul Boutin, “A Universe of Gadget Advice”, in New York Times
    2 more examples

    Unsure what to make of it, I flicked on Entertainment Tonight (7:30 p.m. weekdays on NBC, Global) to find — gak — his sister Marie, who served her own headline-grabbing stint on Dancing two seasons ago, being treated like visiting royalty by the outrageously overcaffeinated Mary Hart.

    2009 March 19, Joel Rubinoff, “It's not a dream: They're back”, in Toronto Star

    The article in the FT quoted an unnamed aide describing Truss, who left Downing Street after 49 days once her position became untenable among Conservative MPs, as “overcaffeinated” in her decision-making process.

    2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overcaffeinate

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishcaffeinated
  8. Englishovercaffeinated

From over- + caffeinated.

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APA

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Chicago

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