boiled
adjective
half-boiled
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a word derived from
boiled.
Example Sentences
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Though the bagel arrived in America with Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, until a few years ago, most of the country hadn't enjoyed this half-boiled, half-baked, half-crunchy, half-chewy half-roll.
From Time Magazine Archive
A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am thirsty as an African desert, thirsty as Sunday, thirsty as a devil half-boiled in the cauldrons of Lucifer.”
From Flemish Legends by Charles de Coster
But although he had seen Ted Flaggan frequently under the aspect of a British seaman, he had never before seen him in the character of a half-boiled Moor.
From The Pirate City An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The thick, doughy tortillas and half-boiled black beans, accompanied by black, unstrained coffee with dirty crude sugar and without milk, were not merely monotonous, but would have been fatal to civilized man of sedentary habits.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
