overegg

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌəʊvəɹˈɛɡ/    美 /ˌoʊvəɹˈɛɡ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo. idiomatic,regional,transitive
    — But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.

词形变化

overeggs present,singular,third-person overegging participle,present overegged participle,past overegged past over-egg alternative

词源

From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + egg, from the phrase over-egg the pudding, a reference to adding too many eggs to a pudding and thereby ruining it.
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