overcooked
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊkt
Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]overcooked
- simple past and past participle of overcook
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]overcooked (comparative more overcooked, superlative most overcooked)
- Made unpalatable or inedible by cooking for too long.
- This meat is overcooked, almost burnt.
- 2020 June 9, Randall Munroe, “Can You Boil an Egg Too Long?”, in The New York Times[1]:
- If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
- Done to excess.
- Synonym: tryhard
- His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.