overjuicy

comparative more overjuicy · superlative most overjuicy

1. Excessively juicy.

   Overjuicy pies need not run over. Suggestions: Before baking, insert 1½-inch pieces of uncooked macaroni in several of the slits in the top crust.

   1957, Michael Gore, “All About Pies […]”, in The Encyclopedia of Household Hints and Dollar Stretchers […], Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 103, column 2

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   As this is a book mostly about music, the chief and most important effect of this postwar Berlin upon me was to house-clean out of me all of the remaining old poesy, false-sentimentalism, and overjuicy overidyllicism.

   1945, George Antheil, “Berlin”, in Bad Boy of Music, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, →OCLC, part I (Berlin), page 29

   After coating the back of the tissue sketch with graphite, I traced the drawing down on gesso board. I frequently use gesso as the ground for oil paints. It has the advantage of soaking up the turpentine medium very rapidly, and at the same time it eliminates the “overjuicy” effect typical of oils.

   1952, Austin Briggs, “Case History No. 3 – Advertising illustration”, in How I Make a Picture, Westport, Conn.: Institute of Commercial Art, →OCLC, page 85, column 1