Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Intoxicated; drunk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Raised to the boiling-point.
- Prepared by being subjected to the heat of boiling water: sometimes substantively (from its use as a heading on bills of fare) for meat dressed or cooked by boiling: as, “a great piece of cold boiled,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
boil . - adjective Cooked in boiling water.
- adjective of water having reached the
boiling point - adjective colloquial
angry - adjective colloquial
drunk
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective cooked in hot water
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Examples
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After they have boiled until tender and the water _boiled nearly out_, add pepper and salt, a tablespoonful of butter and a half a cup of cream; if you have not the cream add more butter.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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-- What may be termed high-class mashed potatoes are made by mashing up ordinary boiled potatoes with a little milk _previously boiled_, a little butter, and passing the whole through a wire sieve, when
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867
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Being once in town, with one son (then a little boy) and a clerk, while my family was in the country, I had during some weeks nothing but legs of mutton; first day, leg of mutton boiled or _roasted_; second, _cold_; third, _hashed_; then, leg of mutton _boiled_; and so on.
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In fact they are using an affectionate piece of rhyming slang: boiled is short for boiled bean,
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There was this other syndrome that happens which they call the boiled frog syndrome, where things get worse in these fine calibrations.
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She filled our crystal goblets with bubbly root beer and heaped the bone china plates with what we call boiled dinner down home.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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She filled our crystal goblets with bubbly root beer and heaped the bone china plates with what we call boiled dinner down home.
Fall On Your Knees Macdonald Ann-Marie 1996
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You can find the recipe, here, if you want to mock how ridiculous it is to fill an angel food cake with lemon curd and then, smother the whole shebang in boiled icing.
Archive 2009-01-01 Sarah Lenz 2009
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You can find the recipe, here, if you want to mock how ridiculous it is to fill an angel food cake with lemon curd and then, smother the whole shebang in boiled icing.
Ringing in the New Year with Pork Sarah Lenz 2009
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NICE GUYS FINISH FIRSTA study was published this week, and the investigation (as with previous studies this year on height, education, work, age and heart disease) again boiled down to the question of how to get more sex.
Up front: Eva Wiseman Eva Wiseman 2010
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