BOILED EGG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boiled egg mean? 

• BOILED EGG (noun)
  The noun BOILED EGG has 1 sense:

1. egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water

  Familiarity information: BOILED EGG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOILED EGG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

boiled egg; coddled egg

Hypernyms ("boiled egg" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "boiled egg"):

hard-boiled egg; hard-cooked egg (an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify)