Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To boil (an egg) in the shell to a solid consistency.
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- verb transitive To
cook (anegg ) to a solid consistency: to cause to behard-boiled .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At least with eggs you hard-boil off the letters, or crack the shell and toss the words out with it.
James Napoli: Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From Matt Damon and Eggs James Napoli 2010
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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.
if you turn your back on god don't turn your back on love matociquala 2010
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At least with eggs you hard-boil off the letters, or crack the shell and toss the words out with it.
James Napoli: Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From Matt Damon and Eggs James Napoli 2010
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At least with eggs you hard-boil off the letters, or crack the shell and toss the words out with it.
James Napoli: Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From Matt Damon and Eggs James Napoli 2010
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At least with eggs you hard-boil off the letters, or crack the shell and toss the words out with it.
James Napoli: Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From Matt Damon and Eggs James Napoli 2010
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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.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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Julia figured out that the way to hard-boil an egg is to stop short of actually boiling it.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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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.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010
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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.
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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.
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