ˈover-ˈfew, a. Now dial.
[over- 28.]
Too few.
| [1470–85 Malory Arthur v. x, Ouer fewe to fyght with soo many.] 1538 Starkey England ii. ii. 191 Of them [i.e. ministers of the law] are ouer-many, though ther be among them ouer-few gud. a 1687 H. More in Norris Theory Love (1688) 181 Else they would be in the state of sincerity, which over-few..are. [Mod. Sc. Owre few o' the richt sort.] |