over-egg

Alternative forms

• overegg

Etymology

From the phrase to over-egg the pudding

Verb

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

1. To overembellish.
   • 2014 July 26, “Argentina's debt saga: Unsettling times: The clock is ticking toward an Argentine default”, in The Economist‎:

     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”.