Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Greedy to excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Excessively greedy.
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- adjective
Greedy to excess.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excessively gluttonous
Etymologies
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From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ ("overgreedy, too covetous"), equivalent to over- + greedy.
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Examples
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It has been feen eating milk out of the fame difh with children, without biting them, though they often gave it blows with the fpoon upon the head, when it was overgreedy.
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