Boiled eggs are eggs, typically from a chicken, cooked with their shells unbroken, usually by immersion in boiling water. Hard-boiled eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while soft-boiled eggs may leave the yolk, and sometimes the white, at least partially liquid and raw.

What does it mean when a person is hard boiled?

hard-boiled • \HAHRD-BOYLD\ • adjective. 1 a : devoid of sentimentality : tough b : of, relating to, or being a detective story featuring a tough unsentimental protagonist and a matter-of-fact attitude towards violence 2 : hardheaded, practical.

What is the meaning of hard boiled egg?

A type of egg that is cooked in the shell until the yolk and the white are completely solid. ...