overcarking

English

Etymology

over- +‎ carking

Adjective

overcarking (comparative more overcarking, superlative most overcarking)

1. (archaic) Too anxious; too full of care.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     being solicitously overcarking for the future

Verb

overcarking

1. present participle and gerund of overcark

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overcarking”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• overracking