What does soft-boiled mean?

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soft-boiled

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English

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adj

softboiled (alternative) soft boiled (alternative)

hard-boiled

hard-boiled

softhearted

What does soft-boiled mean?: cooked to a soft consistency with the yolk still runny

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