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Hard-boiled   /hɑrd-bɔɪld/   Listen
adjective
hard-boiled, hard-bitten  adj.  Not given to sentimentality or gentleness; of people; as, a hard-bitten character.
Synonyms: pugnacious, tough.



hard-boiled  adj.  
1.
Same as hard-bitten.
Synonyms: hard-bitten, pugnacious.
2.
Emotionally hardened; used of persons.
Synonyms: callous, case-hardened, hardened.
3.
Cooked until the yolk is solid; used of eggs; as, a breakfast of pancakes and hard-boiled eggs.






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"Hard-boiled" Quotes from Famous Books



... gipsy fire. The inevitable billy- can hung from a tripod, and the steam from it mingled with the smoke of the fire. Mollie was toasting bread, which Prudence buttered with a lavish hand, and Grizzel was shelling hard-boiled eggs. ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton

... mind, particularly after eating, and the want of proper exercise at all other times; and 3d. Debilitating causes. Under errors of diet, an unusually heavy meal, especially of animal food, and the use of heavy, unfermented bread, or compact, hard-boiled, fat dumplings or puddings, salted and dried meats, acescent fruits, malt liquors, and acescent wines, are enumerated as particularly hurtful in the lithic ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... her off right or left. At every fifteen miles of the rail-roads there are refreshment rooms; the cars stop, all the doors are thrown open, and out rush the passengers like boys out of school, and crowd round the tables to solace themselves with pies, patties, cakes, hard-boiled eggs, ham, custards, and a variety of railroad luxuries, too numerous to mention. The bell rings for departure, in they all hurry with their hands and mouths full, and off they go again, until the next stopping place induces them ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... a dark brown, almost black. It contained bits of meat, and mushrooms, and slices of hard-boiled egg, and yellow Martian rock lichen. It produced, on the light tunic, ...
— Last Enemy • Henry Beam Piper

... after the meal, as soon as the family and Victorine had left the pair alone in the dining-room, they set about preparing for their morrow's excursion. Blix put up their lunch—sandwiches of what Condy called "devilish" ham, hard-boiled eggs, stuffed olives, and a ...
— Blix • Frank Norris


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