overweening
adj/əʊvəˈwiːnɪŋ/UK/oʊvɚˈwinɪŋ/US
Etymology
From Middle English overweninge, equivalent to overween + -ing. Cognate with obsolete Dutch overwanig, overwaand (“presumptuous; cocky; conceited”).
- inherited from overweninge
Definitions
Unduly confident
Unduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
- She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.
- Heere's an ouer-weening rogue.
Exaggerated, excessive.
- The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages.
An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities
An excessively high opinion of oneself or one’s abilities; presumption, arrogance.
- Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…].
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present participle and gerund of overween
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for overweening. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA