over-egged

Overly embellished or exaggerated.

Adjective

  1. Overly embellished or exaggerated.
    • He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy. - 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and...

Origin

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

Forms

overegged

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of over-egg

Origin

Etymology tree English over-egg English -ed English over-egged From over-egg + -ed.

Forms

overegged