Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To boil (an egg) in the shell to a solid consistency.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from hard-boiled. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from hard-boiled. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At least with eggs you hard-boil off the letters, or crack the shell and toss the words out with it.”
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“They're obviously from a mixed flock -- blue, green, white, and brown shells -- and they're so fresh you can't get them out of the shell whole if you hard-boil them, because they have no air spaces.”
“Note: to hard-boil the yolks saving the egg whites for other dishes, place a pan filled with about 2 inches of water on high heat.”
“Julia figured out that the way to hard-boil an egg is to stop short of actually boiling it.”
“There are three recipes for all-purpose doughs or batters and two techniques: how to hard-cook/hard-boil an egg and how to poach a chicken breast.”
“Hah... isn't it funny how we all have our own "fail-proof" method to hard-boil eggs?”
How to Make Perfect Hard-Boiled Eggs and Recipes Using Hard-Boiled Eggs
“Boil it — hard-boil it — until the yolk is a firm yellow globe — a sun shining on manly hearts with cleaned-out ears.”
“I wonder how long it would take to hard-boil one of those babies?”
“I was making two soft-boiled eggs for eggs-on-buttered-toast comfort-food cold-remedy dinner, and thought I might as well hard-boil the last two in the carton at the same time.”
“I suspect that this had to do with the fact that I was cooking a half-dozen eggs, in a large pot of water, as I was going to hard-boil the rest for potato salad.”
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