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Adjective [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-overfull.wav [US] Forms: overful [alternative]
Etymology: From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- + full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|overful}} Middle English overful, {{inh|en|ang|oferfull|t=overfull}} Old English oferfull (“overfull”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|}} Proto-West Germanic [Term?], {{inh|en|gem-pro|*uberfullaz}} Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz, {{prefix|en|over|full}} over- + full, {{cog|de|übervoll|t=overfull}} German übervoll (“overfull”), {{cog|sv|överfull|t=overfull}} Swedish överfull (“overfull”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} overfull (not comparable)
  1. excessively filled; full to overflowing Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: overfully, overfullness Related terms: overfill
    Sense id: en-overfull-en-adj-RLhN1hrh Categories (other): English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with over-, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 70 30 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 70 30 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 70 30 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 75 25 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 79 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-overfull.wav [US] Forms: overfulls [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English full house English overfull From over- + full house. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|over-|full house|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English full house English overfull [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*uber", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "ofer-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "over-", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "over-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "full house", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "overfull", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="overfull"> From over- + full house. Head templates: {{en-noun}} overfull (plural overfulls)
  1. (poker) A full house that beats someone else's full house. Hypernyms: full house, hand (english: poker sense)
    Sense id: en-overfull-en-noun-ViGiQqsx Categories (other): Poker, English terms prefixed with over- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with over-: 51 49 Topics: card-games, poker
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.