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单词 overluscious
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overlusciousadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈlʌʃəs/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈləʃəs/
Forms: see over- prefix and luscious adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, luscious adj.
Etymology: < over- prefix + luscious adj.
Too luscious, excessively luscious.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > overly sweet
wallow-sweetc1440
oversweeta1475
luscious1530
wallowish-sweet1575
overluscious1626
over-sweetened1818
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum § 624 Because Honey..will give them a Taste Overlushious.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 48 Warm imagination, and overluscious self-flattery.
1943 C. Carswell Let. 6 May in Lying Awake (1950) 218 I think when one is older Keats often seems over-luscious.
1993 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Feb. c7 What we just barely tolerate in this chronologically numbered, blatantly autobiographical opus [sc. Fellini's 81/2] is the shamelessly overluscious ‘Italian-ness’ of it.

Derivatives

ˌoverˈlusciousness n.
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1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. x. i. 671 A certain over-lusciousness traceable in his [sc. Keats] earlier work.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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