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
Afterwards they visited the house or houses from which they had carried the image of Death; where they received a dole of half-boiled peas.
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
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
There were five times as many potatoes served to us as two men could possibly eat, and not one of them was half-boiled.
From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert
