overcooked

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʊkt

Etymology 1

Verb

overcooked

1. simple past and past participle of overcook

Etymology 2

From over- +‎ cooked.

Adjective

overcooked (comparative more overcooked, superlative most overcooked)

1. Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.

   This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.

   • 2020 June 9, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.

2. Done to excess.

   Synonym: tryhard

   His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.

Synonyms

• overdone

Antonyms

• undercooked
• underdone

Translations

cooked for too long

• Finnish: ylikypsä (fi)
• French: trop cuit
• German: verbraten (de) (frying), verkocht (de) (boiling)
• Hungarian: túlfőtt, túlfőzött
• Irish: róchócaráilte
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ihjelkokt

• Polish: rozgotowany
• Slovak: rozvarené n
• Swedish: urkokt