hard-cooked egg
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- noun
- /hɑrd kʊkt ɛg/
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huevo duro
- To make a classic Caesar salad, add slices of hard-cooked egg on top for extra protein.
- chopped hard-cooked eggs
- hard-cooked eggs, peeled
- sliced hard-cooked eggs
Examples
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It is a hard-cooked egg wrapped in house-made sausage, breaded, and I believe it was then fried.
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For a protein-rich snack, enjoy a hard-cooked egg with a pinch of salt.
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She prepared a delicious potato salad that included diced hard-cooked egg for added flavor.
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
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hard-cooked + egg
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hard-cooked' signals an egg that has been cooked until hard, and combined with 'egg' yields the obvious referent. This adjective+noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common (cf. 'hard-boiled egg'), so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Hard-cooked egg is a plain cooking name that comes from the literal image of an egg boiled until both the white and the yolk are completely hard. The words hard and cooked show it is fully 'boiled', not 'runny', which is why the phrase means an egg with a solid center.