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English
Etymology
From Middle English *overgredy, from Old English ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- + greedy.
Adjective
overgreedy (comparative more overgreedy, superlative most overgreedy)
- Greedy to excess.
c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :The commonwealth is sick of their own choice
Their over-greedy love hath surfeited.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 270:'I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively.'