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overdresser

noun

Etymology

From overdress + -er.

  1. derived from dīrēctus
  2. derived from *dīrēctiāre✻ — “to guide, direct”
  3. derived from dresser
  4. inherited from dressen
  5. prefixed as overdress — “over + dress”
  6. suffixed as overdresser — “overdress + er”

Definitions

  1. One who overdresses.

    • Young men generally have a horror of girls who make them conspicuous, who are flamboyant about cosmetics, who are poseurs, overdressers, who, when asked to a beer party, insist on milk or a highball[…]
    • An obsessive overdresser, I was often observed even on summer days wearing a flannel shirt, woolen coat, suit, and atrocious-looking shoes made in Russia.
    • Good to see that portraying the French as poncey overdressers delights a 21st-century audience as much as it must have done the Elizabethan groundlings.

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