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overrude

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Etymology

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From over- +‎ rude.

Adjective

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overrude (comparative more overrude, superlative most overrude)

  1. (rare) Too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.
    • 1874, Emily Jolly, Colonel Dacre:
      His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air...

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