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hard wired |
hard worker |
hard-and-fast |
hard-baked |
hard-bitten |
hard-boiled
| hard-boiled egg
| hard-bound
| hard-cooked egg
| hard-core
| hard-favored
hard-boiled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hard-boiled has 3 senses
- hard-boiled(s = adj.all) hard-bitten, pugnacious - tough and callous by virtue of experience; Array
- hard-boiled(s = adj.all) case-hardened, hardened - used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge"
- hard-boiled(s = adj.all) Array - (eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-boiled, adj.
not given to sentimentality or gentleness; -- of people; as, a hard-bitten character. [WordNet 1.5]
hard-boiled, adj.
- same as hard-bitten. [WordNet 1.5]
- emotionally hardened; -- used of persons. [WordNet 1.5]
- cooked until the yolk is solid; -- used of eggs; as, a breakfast of pancakes and hard-boiled eggs. [WordNet 1.5]
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