overmany

English

Etymology

From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- +‎ many. Compare overmuch.

Pronoun

overmany

  1. Too many.
    • 1580, Gabriel Harvey, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany?
    • 2012, Nigel Tranter, Lion's Whelp:
      “Now, nominations for the council – but not over-many,” the Chancellor moved.

Adjective

overmany (not comparable)

  1. Too many.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:
      Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.
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