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Definitions: Hard-boiled |
Hard-boiledAdjective1. Tough and callous by virtue of experience. 2. Used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case-hardened judge". 3. (used of eggs) cooked until the yolk is solid. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hard-boiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: Hard-boiledSynonyms: case-hardened (adj), hard-bitten (adj), hardened (adj), pugnacious (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hard-boiled |
| English words defined with "hard-boiled": Dashiell Hammett ♦ Easter egg ♦ Hammett, hard-boiled egg ♦ kedgeree ♦ Samuel Dashiell Hammett. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hard-boiled": Heart. (references) |
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Screenplays | Some big hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face and bang--he cracks up and goes sappy. (King Kong; writing credit: Merian C. Cooper; Edgar Wallace) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hard-Boiled Haggerty (1927) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hard-boiled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hard-boiled" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 78 | 37,656 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hard-boiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | vejce uvařené natvrdo (hard-boiled egg), vajíèko natvrdo (hard-boiled egg). (various references) | |
Finnish | kovapintainen, kovaksi keitetty. (various references) | |
French | oeuf dur (hard-boiled eggs), oeuf la coque dur (hard-boiled eggs). (various references) | |
Greek | αυγά βραστά σκληρά (hard-boiled eggs). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keménytojás (hard-boiled egg). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハート"ル法 (barrier-free, computer hardware, disabled or senior-friendly, emotionally uplifting, feel-good, hard, hard court, hard drink, hard sell, hard training, hardboard, hard-copy, hard-core, hard-core porno, hard-cover, hard-disk, hard-link, hardtop, heartbreak, heart-warming, hurdle, hurdling, nickname of a Building Access law, warm-hearted), 固茹で . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハードボイルド , かたゆで. (various references) | |
Manx | reen (dogged, hard, hard-and-fast, hardy, rigid, sinewy, stark, stiff, stringy, thick-skinned, thick-skinned of person), creoi (adamant, bitter, bitter of frost, blistering, blistering as language, difficult, distressing, dry, hard, hard-set, hardy, heartless, near, near with money, neat, obdurate, solid, steely, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, tough). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ard-boiledhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | irrealizável (hard-boiled egg, impossible, impracticable, unachievable, unattainable, unrealizable). (various references) | |
Romanian | ou fiert tare (hard-boiled egg). (various references) | |
Russian | вкрутую (hard boiled). (various references) | |
Spanish | huevo duro (hard-boiled egg). (various references) | |
Thai | (ไข่) ที่ต้มจนแข็ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | haşlanmış katı yumurta (hard-boiled egg), katı yumurta (hard-boiled egg). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-h-i-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: dihedral. | |
-3 letters: addible, airhole, bedrail, bladder, boarded, braided, brailed, bridled, broiled, dariole, diehard, halberd, hidable, hirable, hoarded, labored, labroid, radioed, ridable, roadbed. | |
-4 letters: abided, abider, aboded, adored, albedo, ariled, badder, baddie, bailed, bailer, bailor, balded, balder, barded, bedrid, behold, bidder, birded, birled, bladed, blared, bodied, boiled, boiler, bolder, bolide, bordel, boreal, boride, bridal, bridle, daledh, deodar, derail, dialed, dialer, dildoe, dirled, doable, doiled, dreidl, eidola, habile, hailed, hailer, hairdo, haired, halide, haloed, haloid, herald, herbal, holard, holder, holier, horded, ladder, laddie, laired, larded, librae, loaded, loader, lorded, obelia, ordeal, raddle, raided, railed, reboil, redial, relaid, reload, ribald, riddle, roadie, roiled. | |
-5 letters: abhor, abide, abler, abode, aboil, adder, addle, adobe, adore, ahold, aided, aider, ailed, aired, alder, ardeb, ariel, aroid, baled, baler, barde, bared, beard, bided, bider, bield, birle, blade, blare, blear, board, boded, bohea, bolar, boral, bored, braid, brail, bread, bride, broad, broil, dared, deair, debar, dedal, dhobi, dhole, dildo, diode, dobie, dobla, dobra, doled, drail, dread, dried, droid, haded, haled, haler, halid, haole, hared, heard, helio, hided, hider, hilar, hired, hoard, hodad, holed, horal, horde, ideal, idled, idler, irade, labor, laded, lader, laird, liard, liber, libra, lidar, lobar, lobed, oared, obeah, obeli, odder, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, orbed, oread, oriel, rabid, radio, readd, rebid, redia, redid, rehab, reoil, riled, robed, roble. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 2D 62 6F 69 6C 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01101001 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d - b o i l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 002D 0062 006F 0069 006C 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4267847015688175787170 |
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