hard-boiled egg
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- noun
- /hɑrd bɔɪld ɛg/
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- For dinner, we ate things like hard-boiled eggs and leftover Domino's pizza.
- peel hard-boiled eggs
- sliced hard-boiled egg
- hard-boiled egg yolk
I am going to eat this hard boiled egg.
- I am going to eat this hard boiled egg.
- So in our first study, we made some people believe that they'd gotten sick on hard boiled eggs.
- And they also like, I don't know, it was like avocado toast, hard boiled egg and a porridge.
Examples
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I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.
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So that she would not have to stop for food, she kept a hard-boiled egg on the passenger seat of the Corvette.
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No, obviously you like to eat your hard boiled eggs from the big end, Right?
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Good culture one, pretty hard boiled eggs and then this coffee was actually so good.
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Would you like a, uh, hard-boiled egg or something?
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I like a good hard boiled egg, just with salt.
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Soft eggs have their place, but we're learning how to make hard-boiled eggs here!
Blog text (15) -
Have you ever seen the proper way to crack a hard-boiled egg?
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Ramona wants a hard-boiled egg if we have any.
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I brought you some hard-boiled eggs and some nuts.
Synonyms
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An egg cooked in its shell in boiling water until the white and yolk are set
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An egg boiled until the white and yolk are solid
How Cooked
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: 'hard-boiled' describes the cooking result (both white and yolk solid) and 'egg' names the food item, so a learner who knows the constituents can derive the combined meaning. This adjective + noun pattern is straightforward and common across languages, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Hard-boiled egg is an egg cooked in boiling water until both the white and the yolk are solid. The words hard and boiled give a clear picture: the egg is cooked all the way through, not 'soft' or runny.