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Definition of Hard-boiled egg
1. Noun. An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify.
Generic synonyms: Boiled Egg, Coddled Egg
Specialized synonyms: Easter Egg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-boiled Egg
Literary usage of Hard-boiled egg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1895)
"The following paper was then read and referred to the Committee on Publication :
ESTIMATION OF THE DIGESTION, OR SOLUBILITY OF HARD BOILED EGG ALBUMEN WITH ..."
2. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia... With Numerous by N. K. M. Lee (1832)
"... the yolk of a hard-boiled egg, and mix with it chopped sweet herbs, grated
bread, nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Cover the steaks with it, and put each into ..."
3. Dan Leno by J. Hickory Wood (1905)
"The title, he explained, was " The Wasp and the Hard-Boiled Egg," at which we
all laughed hugely, thinking this was one of Dan's little jocular inventions. ..."
4. Reminiscences of Syria and Fragments of a Journal and Letters from the Holy Land by Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier (1843)
"from the brandy flask, with a hard boiled egg, soon brought him to more cheerful
opinions. Mounting then our refreshed nags, and favoured by a bright moon, ..."
5. The Threshold of Science: A Variety of Simple and Amusing Experiments by Charles Romley Alder Wright (1891)
"... which the matter is managed it seems an impossibility to get a genuine
hard-boiled egg inside a narrow-necked bottle. Expt. 253. To make Bones pliable. ..."
6. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"... longer be restrained, and a three-pound hard-boiled egg laid upon the plate,
But aside from its size there was nothing peculiar about it. ..."
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