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over-enˈthusiasm
[over- 29 d.]
An excess of enthusiasm. So ˌover-enthusiˈastic a.
1927Melody Maker Aug. 781/2 Some of my readers..have said that I am over-enthusiastic about Harry Richman. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 148 Over-enthusiasm has..resulted in the operator flicking the disc completely free from the turntable and skimming it across the room! 1962A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control viii. 77 There is also the over-enthusiastic salesman who offers to provide non-standard varieties of his company's products. 1970Nature 24 Oct. 303/1 An over-enthusiasm for classifying projects of very marginal secrecy may have hampered progress. 1976M. Drabble Genius of T. Hardy 166 The dog that destroys Gabriel Oak's sheep is over-enthusiastic, not malicious. |