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over-egg

vb. to over-embellish something

Usage examples of "over-egg".

Maurice said, if I appeared, it might look as if they'd rather over-egged the pudding.

Bampfylde frowned, wondering whether he had over-egged the pudding a little, but it was important that Ford, who had noble connections in London, should feel pleased with this despatch.

There was a carefully chosen hint of kzinrret too, in the watered-silk pattern of her skin-tight trousers (there were costumes available with hints of tails, but that, she had decided, would have been definitely over-egging the pudding).

Most acquittals occur when the Judge sickens the Jury by over-egging the prosecution pudding.