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HARD-COOKED EGG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hard-cooked egg mean?
• HARD-COOKED EGG (noun)
The noun HARD-COOKED EGG has 1 sense:
1. an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify
Familiarity information: HARD-COOKED EGG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
hard-boiled egg; hard-cooked egg
Hypernyms ("hard-cooked egg" is a kind of...):
boiled egg; coddled egg (egg cooked briefly in the shell in gently boiling water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hard-cooked egg"):
Easter egg (a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter)
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