overboil
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To boil excessively.
Example Sentences
- "If you overboil an egg, you'll end up with a hardboiled egg instead of the softboiled egg that you wanted; and if you underboil an egg, you'll end up with a softboiled egg instead of the hardboiled egg that you wanted."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *bew-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.? Latin bulla Proto-Indo-European *-yétider. Latin -iō Latin bulliō Old French boillirbor. Middle English boillen English boil English overboil From over- + boil.