hard-boiled

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

1 (of an egg) boiled until the inside is hard compareSOFT-BOILED 2 (of people) not showing much emotion

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

hard-boiledEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus hard-boiledEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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hard-boiled