oversharen.
/ˈəʊvəʃɛː/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌʃɛ(ə)r/ 1. An amount or allocation that is more than normal, expected, or deserved; a disproportion.
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1700 C. Leslie Case Regale & Pontificat Stated xv. 118 The Reformation..did Pretend but to Restore the Ancient Regale, free from the Usurpations of the Pope; Who had got an over-Share in the Division which He and the King had made of the Episcopal Power and Authority.
1849 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 29 Mar. 2/1 As those now in office have had an over-share for so long a time, a little under-share now, is no injustice.
1933 Cornishman 12 Jan. 5/5 [They] are economically forced..[from agriculture] to other walks of life and the best land in the world has an overshare of the second-best and amateurs.
2005 Sportsman (Nexis) 22 July 52 His low service fee in the early years meant that he didn't attract the highest quality of mare yet he gets an overshare of winners.
2. The action or an instance of sharing or revealing an inappropriate amount of detail about something, esp. one's personal life.Now the usual sense.
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1996 houston.music, houston.personals 14 May (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 22 Sept. 2020) I always am impressed by people, especially men,..who bare their self in a public forum. Could be nuts, could be a perv, could be an interesting person. I myself am called the ‘queen of overshare’ by my dear brother-in-law, so I feel a certain sympatico.
2000 N.Y. Times 5 Nov. ix. 3/2 Why was our pilot telling us about questionable brakes..when we still had a landing to worry about five hours ahead? Clearly, he was giving us way too much information. He was guilty of overshare.
2018 N. Lacour in J. L. Armentrout et al. Meet Cute 22 ‘I'm thirty-seven. I told Eduardo now or never and threw the condoms away.’ She leaned back and laughed. ‘Okay, thanks for tolerating my overshare.’
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oversharev.
/ˌəʊvəˈʃɛː/, /ˈəʊvəʃɛː/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈʃɛ(ə)r/, /ˈoʊvərˌʃɛ(ə)r/ 1. intransitive. To have more than the normal or expected share of something. rare.
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1974 F. R. Marshall & R. A. Garnett Rural Workers in Rural Labor Markets 74 A study of nonmetropolitan areas of Mississippi found that..blacks overshared in employment declines.
2. transitive. To share (something, esp. information) with more people than is necessary or desirable; (now) spec. to reveal an inappropriate amount of detail about (one's personal life, or aspects of this).
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1982 D. M. Gottesman Powerful Parent iv. 153 Often, we tend to overshare information with others... In sending the whole record, you cannot be sure that it will be read only by the appropriate individuals.
1985 M. A. Connors et al. Living Aloft (NASA SP-483) 323 There is evidence that in confinement people tend at first to overshare personal confidences and then, over time, to psychologically withdraw from others in the group.
2019 Sun (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Features section) 7 I definitely see the things that I brought on myself... Just being flashy and oversharing my every move on social media.
3. intransitive. To reveal an inappropriate amount of detail about something, esp. one's personal life.
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1995 alt.horror.werewolves (Usenet newsgroup) 17 Mar. Ooops! I'm ‘oversharing’ again aren't I?
1998 Spokesman-Rev. (Nexis) 16 Apr. (In Life section) Dear Ginger: Thanks for oversharing... Ginger Spice reveals that she ‘caught nits once and had to have all my hair cut off’.
2017 L. Ajayi I'm judging You xix. 200 We all overshare sometimes. But at what point do we draw a line?.. When does sharing our lives go past vulnerability to being a spectacle and a crutch?
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