Definition of "boiled egg" []

• An egg which has been cooked in the shell in boiling water. It can be hard-boiled or soft-boiled. (noun)

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• "Restlessness for the forty-sixth had set in, and I was keeping busy sweeping up the débris from the rubbery boiled egg I had been eating, when suddenly I froze, aware somehow of unusual movement in the building above me."
• "The small thing that happened to Miss Ruskin was that her car broke down near one of the new Zionist settlements, and while she was waiting for the driver to return with a part, she ate a boiled egg that had sat too long in the heat."
• "MARTHA GRIMES his old nurse bringing a tray to his room back home, bringing things like runny boiled egg and dry toast."