What does boiled egg mean?

boiled egg means "egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water".

What is another word for boiled egg?

Close synonyms include coddled egg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boiled egg a common word?

boiled egg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Boiled egg — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water
Synonymscoddled egg
Broaderdish
Narrowerhard-boiled egg

Questions about boiled egg

What does boiled egg mean?: boiled egg means "egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water".
What is another word for boiled egg?: Close synonyms include coddled egg. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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