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Webster 1828 Edition


Overbusy

OVERBUSY

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Adj.
overbiz'zy. Too busy; officious.

Definition 2024


overbusy

overbusy

English

Adjective

overbusy (comparative more overbusy, superlative most overbusy)

  1. Excessively busy; officious.

Verb

overbusy (third-person singular simple present overbusies, present participle overbusying, simple past and past participle overbusied)

  1. (transitive) To busy or involve (oneself) too thoroughly in something.
    • 1964, Ethel Stephens Arnett, From England to North Carolina: Two Special Gifts (page 59)
      Returning to England, he was there imprisoned, some say for overbusying himself in matters of foreign trade.