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overboard, adv.|əʊvəˈbɔəd, ˈəʊvə-|
[f. over prep. 12 + board n., q.v. for Forms. Usually treated as two words to c 1600; hyphened to c 1800; as one word from late in 18th c.]
1. a. Of motion: Over the side of a ship or boat, out of or from the ship into the water.
c1000ælfric Hom. I. 246 Hi ða wurpon heora waru ofor bord. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 157 Þer watz busy ouer borde bale to kest. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 824 The theef fil ouer bord al sodeynly. a1400Morte Arth. 3703 Alle þe kene mene of kampe, knyghtes and oþer, Killyd are colde dede, and castyne over burdez! 1495Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 278 Rotteyn And for their ffeblenes cast ouer Borde. 1572Gascoigne Hearbes, Voy. Holland Wks. (1587) 168 Whych cast the best fraight ouer⁓boord away. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 126, I escap'd vpon a But of Sacke, which the Saylors heaued o're-boord. 1623Bp. Hall Best Bargaine Wks. (1625) 520 At last turned ouer⁓boord into a sea of Desperation. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 17 The Pearl..had thrown about 14 Ton of Water over board. 1762Falconer Shipwreck ii. 266 In such extremes, no moment should be lost But over-board, the cumb'rous cannon tost. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xii. 98 He fell overboard and was drowned.
b. Beyond the side of the ship, outside the ship.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 80 He rigged out a spar, one end of which projected overboard.
2. fig.
a. esp. in phr. to throw overboard, to cast aside, discard, reject, renounce.
b. Also, excessively, beyond one's means; chiefly in phr. to go overboard, to behave immoderately; to go too far; to display excessive enthusiasm.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 193 That Religion which is more turbulent, seditious, and stormy, let it be throwne over-board to lighten the ship of the Church. 1679Establ. Test 9 They threw over-board all their Loyalty. 1831Lamb Elia Ser. ii. To Shade of Elliston, The judge's ermine; the coxcomb's wig; the snuff box à la Foppington—all must overboard. 1931D. Runyon in Collier's 26 Sept. 8/2 We go over⁓board today. We are washed out. We owe every book⁓maker.., and now we are out trying to raise some scratch to pay off. Ibid. 9/4 We do not have anything to bet on these races, or any way of betting on them, because we are overboard with every bookmaker we know. 1945[see bust v.2 f]. 1951J. P. Marquand Melville Goodwin (1952) viii. 113 Did you ever hear about General Goodwin going overboard over an American girl in Paris..? 1953‘S. Ransome’ Hear no Evil (1954) xv. 140 The man went overboard in a big way morally—he made himself a thief, deserted his family. 1960N.Z. Listener 30 Sept. 11/1, I cannot admire ‘abstract’ interpretations any more than I can go overboard about sculpture rigged up out of bicycle parts. 1968Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Feb. 16/2 It is easy to go overboard on the new techniques, for all their virtues. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 153 Many psychologists..have gone overboard in hypothetical and speculative associations of this sort. 1978Times 9 Jan. 8/6 Lord Allen..has been convinced of the importance of money..without going overboard in defence of it.
3. = above-board; plainly and openly.
1834H. O'Brien Round Towers Irel. 327 To speak over⁓board, the lapses..were to him ethically unavoidable.
Hence overˈboard v. (nonce-wd.), to throw overboard.
1585–6Earl of Leicester Corr. (Camden) 312, I will rather be overthrowne by her majesties doings then overborded by their churles and tinkers. |