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語源

From Middle English *overgredy, from 古期英語 ofergrǣdiġ (“overgreedy, too covetous”), equivalent to over- +‎ greedy.

形容詞

overgreedy (comparative more overgreedy, superlative most overgreedy)

1. Greedy to excess.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iv]:

     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.'