hard-boiled
- adjective
- /hɑrd bɔɪld/
- For dinner, we ate things like hard-boiled eggs and leftover Domino's pizza.
- hard-boiled egg
- peel the hard-boiled eggs
- hard-boiled egg yolk
Some people can scramble them, some people can keep them hard boiled.
- Some people can scramble them, some people can keep them hard boiled.
- Now these eggs were, I want to say not they were peeled OK, but they were hard boiled.
- So in our first study, we made some people believe that they'd gotten sick on hard boiled eggs.
- And then it's filled with all these beautiful vegetables and a hard boiled egg, olive crispy eggplant zatar, which is like my favorite spice.
- I am going to eat this hard boiled egg.
- And they also like, I don't know, it was like avocado toast, hard boiled egg and a porridge.
Examples
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Have you ever seen the proper way to crack a hard-boiled egg?
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I like a good hard boiled egg, just with salt.
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"Yes, I think I will; hard-boiled, please."
Fiction book (1990) -
I am going to eat this hard boiled egg.
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I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.
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OK, before I go I'm going to make myself some hard boiled eggs.
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About 30 years ago, I was sitting on a porch eating a hard-boiled egg and had some salt.
Blog text (7) -
I got myself this rapid egg cooker right here so I can make hard boiled eggs.
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And then I do chopped up celery, hard boiled egg, seasoning, salt, lemon pepper.
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I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.
Synonyms
Cooked in hot water or other hot liquid
How Cooked
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hard-boiled is a literal cooking phrase: an egg boiled until hard, so the white and yolk are 'solid' or 'firm'.