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adjectiveoverneat (comparative more overneat, superlative most overneat)
comparative more overneat · superlative most overneat
- Excessively neat.
A woman who from being a flattern becomes over-neat, or from being over-neat becomes a flattern, is most certainly in love.
1714 September 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, September 1, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 591; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC
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