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hard-boiled

hard-boiled

7 1.8
An egg cooked in boiling water until the white and yolk are solid
  • adjective
  • /hɑrd bɔɪld/
translation icon : hervido
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Have you ever seen the proper way to crack a hard-boiled egg?

  • I like a good hard boiled egg, just with salt.

  • "Yes, I think I will; hard-boiled, please."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I am going to eat this hard boiled egg.

  • I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.

  • OK, before I go I'm going to make myself some hard boiled eggs.

  • 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.

  • And then I do chopped up celery, hard boiled egg, seasoning, salt, lemon pepper.

  • I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.

Synonyms

boiled
vshard-boiled
1.0

Cooked in hot water or other hot liquid

is specific to eggs cooked until both white and yolk are solid

How Cooked

overdone
1 2.9
hard-boiled
7 1.8
soft-boiled
3 2.0

Surface Forms

hard-boiled positive

Morphology

hard-boiled = hard + boiled (transparent) = hard + boil + ed

Direct descriptive compound: 'hard' + 'boiled' = cooked until firm; learners who know the components can readily infer this meaning.

Etymology

Hard-boiled is a literal cooking phrase: an egg boiled until hard, so the white and yolk are 'solid' or 'firm'.