overgreedy
See also: over-greedy
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- + greedy.
Adjective
overgreedy (comparative more overgreedy, superlative most overgreedy)
- Greedy to excess.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- The commonwealth is sick of their own choice / Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 270:
- 'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'
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