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Etymology

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over- +‎ idle

Adjective

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overidle (comparative more overidle, superlative most overidle)

  1. Excessively idle.
    • 2008, Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought (page 342)
      The Church of England is expected to be an overidle mother, who lets her children entirely alone, because those made her who had found the Church of Rome an overbusy mother.

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