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- noun Plural form of
overweener .
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Wilson attacks the critics as "drones and no bees, lubbers and no learners," but the fault he finds in these "croaking paddocks and manifest overweeners of themselves" is that they are "out of reason curious judges over the travail and painstaking of others" instead of being themselves producers. [
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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