overcooked

English

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• Rhymes: -ʊkt

Etymology 1

Verb

overcooked

1. simple past and past participle of overcook

Etymology 2

From over- +‎ cooked.

Adjective

overcooked (comparative more overcooked, superlative most overcooked)

1. 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:

     If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.

2. Done to excess.

   Synonym: tryhard

   His Elvis impersonation was embarrassingly overcooked.

Synonyms

• overdone

Antonyms

• undercooked
• underdone

Derived terms

• overcookedness

Translations

cooked for too long

Finnish: ylikypsä (fi) French: trop cuit German: verbraten (de) (frying), verkocht (de) (boiling) Hungarian: túlfőtt, túlfőzött Irish: róchócaráilte Norwegian: Bokmål: ihjelkokt Polish: rozgotowany Slovak: rozvarené n Swedish: urkokt