Meanings
overfull1
alternative overful
- not comparableexcessively filled; full to overflowing
overfull2
plural overfulls
- card gamesA full house that beats someone else's full house.
[…] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.
2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
overfull · adjective
- Proto-Germanic*uberfullaz
- Proto-West Germanic[Term?]
- Old Englishoferfull“overfull”
- Middle Englishoverful
- Englishoverfull
From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →overfull · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishfull house
- Englishoverfull
From over- + full house.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
overfull. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overfull
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