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hard wheat |
hard wired |
hard worker |
hard-and-fast |
hard-baked |
hard-bitten
| hard-boiled
| hard-boiled egg
| hard-bound
| hard-cooked egg
| hard-core
hard-bitten
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hard-bitten has 1 sense
- hard-bitten(s = adj.all) hard-boiled, pugnacious - tough and callous by virtue of experience; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-bitten, adj.
not given to sentimentality or gentleness; -- of people; as, a hard-bitten character. [WordNet 1.5]
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