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overbidder

noun

Etymology

From overbid + -er.

  1. derived from *gʷʰedʰ-✻
  2. derived from *bidjaną✻
  3. derived from *biddjan✻
  4. derived from bidden
  5. prefixed as overbid — “over + bid”
  6. suffixed as overbidder — “overbid + er”

Definitions

  1. One who overbids.

    • When he is hugging grandmothers or quizzing college students or consoling anguished overbidders on the set of “The Price Is Right,” it is hard to imagine that anything as crass as ambition is what motivates Bob Barker.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA