overbearer
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English overberere, equivalent to overbear + -er.
Noun[edit]
overbearer (plural overbearers)
- one who overbears or is overbearing
- 1836, Philip Bury Duncan, Essays on Conversation and on Quackery:
- Underbearers in conversation are, undoubtedly, much less irksome than overbearers, yet too much hesitation and timidity render a man unfit for colloquial purposes; and we cannot but smile at Cowper's delineation of this very cautious gentleman.