overtout

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verb

To tout to excess

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbovertout (third-person singular simple present overtouts, present participle overtouting, simple past and past participle overtouted)

present singular third person overtouts · participle present overtouting · participle past overtouted · past overtouted

  1. To tout to excess

    The River's Edge, despite its strong subject, was confused and conspicuously overtouted.

    1988 January 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “10 From '87”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

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

From over- + tout.

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APA

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

MLA

“overtout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtout. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overtout,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overtout.

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