a. [SUPER- 9 a.] More serviceable than is required or fitting; doing or offering service beyond what is desired; officious.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 19. A. glasse-gazing super-seruiceable finicall Rogue.
1815. Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 112. A prefix or an adjacent whensoever it is officious or super-serviceable.
1841. Emerson, Lect., Conserv., Wks. (Bohn), II. 276. What a compliment we pay to the good Spirit with our superserviceable zeal!
1883. J. Hawthorne, Dust, II. 34. Shopkeepers bowed in their doorways, rubbing superserviceable hands.
1901. W. Morison, Johnston of Warriston, iv. 21. Even the rashest and most superserviceable of his officials on the spot could do nothing to extinguish it.
Hence Superserviceableness.
1881. Philad. Record, No. 3412. 2. The insolent superserviceableness of professional detectives.
