over-egg

• overegg

From the phrase to over-egg the pudding

over-egg (third-person singular simple present over-eggs, present participle over-egging, simple past and past participle over-egged)

1. To overembellish.
   • 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian‎:

     Janis Joplin sounds unerringly like Ray Stevens’ Bridget the Midget in places. While Raise Your Hand is a pretty undeniable Stax-on-helium workout, her version of the Bee Gees’ To Love Somebody is overegged.

   • 2014 July 26, “Argentina's debt saga: Unsettling times: The clock is ticking toward an Argentine default”, in The Economist‎:

     NML insists Argentina is overegging the RUFO worry: given that the country has appealed its case all the way up to the Supreme Court and been rebuffed, a judge is unlikely to deem any deal “voluntary”.