over-egg

See also: overegg

English edit

Alternative forms edit

overegg

Etymology edit

From the phrase over-egg the pudding; over- +‎ egg.

Pronunciation edit

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Verb edit

over-egg (third-person singular simple present over-eggs, present participle over-egging, simple past and past participle over-egged)

To overembellish.
- 2014 July 26, “Argentina's debt saga: Unsettling times: The clock is ticking toward an Argentine default”, in The Economist‎^[1]:
  NML insists Argentina is overegging the RUFO worry: given that the country has appealed its case all the way up to the Supreme Court and been rebuffed, a judge is unlikely to deem any deal “voluntary”.
- 2017 December 22, Laura Cappelle, “2 French Playwrights Reclaim Their Works, Bringing Them Home”, in New York Times‎^[2]:
  The men fare less well: The husbands of both sisters overegg their Russian accents, with Jakob Öhrman, as the boisterous Pavel, left to utter inanities including, “The truth is in my alcoholism.”
- 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:
  Janis Joplin sounds unerringly like Ray Stevens’ Bridget the Midget in places. While Raise Your Hand is a pretty undeniable Stax-on-helium workout, her version of the Bee Gees’ To Love Somebody is overegged.