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- noun an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify
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Prolagus commented on the word hard-boiled egg
Hard-boiled egg sense, also known as oviception, is the less common sense among the animal kingdom. It can be defined as
The capacity of understanding when to turn the stove off in order to have an actual hard-boiled egg.
October 12, 2008