overcarking

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adjective

Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.

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Meanings

adjectiveovercarking (comparative more overcarking, superlative most overcarking)

comparative more overcarking · superlative most overcarking

  1. archaicToo anxious; expressing or taking too much care.

    being solicitously overcarking for the future

    1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overcark

Origin

From over- + carking.

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APA

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

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Chicago

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