Who'd want to be overweening?
Personally, I wouldn't even want to be weening.
Thing Not To Be Today: overweening. This word comes from the Old English wēnan, which means to imagine something. In the case of someone overweening what's being imagined is an (obvious) belief in one's own importance, intelligence, and entitlement. The related German word wähnen means to assume wrongly.
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