overcarking

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ carking.

Adjective

overcarking (comparative more overcarking, superlative most overcarking)

1. (archaic) Too anxious; expressing or taking too much care.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     being solicitously overcarking for the future

Verb

overcarking

1. present participle and gerund of overcark

References

• “overcarking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• overracking