hard-boiled

See also: hardboiled

English

Alternative forms

• hardboiled
• hard boiled

Adjective

hard-boiled (comparative more hard-boiled, superlative most hard-boiled)

1. (of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.
2. (of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.
   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 31:

     ‘Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.’

Related terms

• soft-boiled
• hard-boiled fiction

Translations

of an egg

• Bulgarian: твърдо сварен (tvǎrdo svaren)
• Catalan: dur (ca)
• Dutch: hardgekookt
• French: cuit dur (fr)
• German: hartgekocht
• Hebrew: קשה (he) f (kasha), מבושלת קשה f (m'vushelet kasha), קשה מבושלת (kasha m'vushelet)
• Icelandic: harðsoðinn
• Italian: sodo (it)
• Japanese: 堅くゆでた (かたくゆでた, kataku yudeta)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hardkokt

  Nynorsk: hardkokt

• Polish: ugotowane na twardo n
• Portuguese: cozido (pt)
• Romanian: fiert tare
• Russian: вкруту́ю (ru) (vkrutúju)
• Spanish: duro (es)
• Swedish: hårdkokt (sv)

callous

• German: hartgesotten (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hardkokt

  Nynorsk: hardkokt

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• Polish: bezduszny (pl)
• Swedish: hårdkokt (sv), rå (sv)

Verb

hard-boiled

1. simple past and past participle of hard-boil