overegg

/ˌəʊvəɹˈɛɡ/

Etymology

From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + egg, from the phrase over-egg the pudding, a reference to adding too many eggs to a pudding and thereby ruining it.

verb

  1. Chiefly in over-egg the pudding: to spoil (something) by exaggerating it, or an aspect of it; to overdo.“But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.”