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adj
excessively filled; full to overflowing
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A full house that beats someone else's full house.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, poker
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adjective satellite
exceeding demand
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: glutted
Antonyms: none provided
History
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 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.
