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overfond [ˌəʊvəˈfɒnd]
adj (postpositive; followed by of)
excessively keen (on) ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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It has often been suggested that the Candy-and-his-dog subplot in Of Mice and Men (1937) is too much, that it is a typical example of Steinbeck's heavyhandedness or overfondness for parallels. Until I got one as a Christmas present (from a friend who should know better and who has now been disowned), I thought a steamer was someone with an overfondness for cocktails. He wrote that Pope's death was ludicrously hastened, if not caused, by his overfondness for rich and exotic dishes, and by "a silver saucepan, in which it was his delight to heat potted lampreys. |
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