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Definition of Overboiled
1. overboil [v] - See also: overboil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overboiled
Literary usage of Overboiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... to fix the exact date when this phrase was first adopted ; but perhaps it was
used in derision by some early Saxon cuok who, having overboiled his fish, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Medica by Douglas Chalmers Watson (1900)
"But what has been said of overboiled milk applies with much greater force to milk
sterilised by prolonged exposure to a high temperature. ..."
3. Notes on the Manufacture of Earthenware by Ernest Albert Sandeman (1901)
"overboiled plaster swells more than plaster which has been properly prepared.
... overboiled plaster solidifies with small lumps as soon as it is mixed with ..."
4. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... that " he might have had bacon to his eggs, if he had not hitherto scolded
his wife when they were overboiled." And the deposition against Dorothy ..."
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