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boiled, ppl. a.|bɔɪld|
[f. boil v. + -ed.]
1. a. Brought to the state of ebullition; subjected to boiling; cooked, cleansed, etc., by boiling.
In quot. 1611 boiled stuff = harlots: with allusion to the sweating-tub.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 43 Þenne boylyd blode take þou shalle. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 37 We went where we had boylde beefe. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 125 Such boyl'd stuffe As well might poyson Poyson. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1137/4 One Set of..Plate Buttons newly boyl'd. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. v. 185 To cut such capers as you eat with boiled mutton. 1881Morley Cobden I. 245 Where men and women subsisted on boiled nettles.
fig.1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 4 These boylde-braines of nineteene and two and twenty.
b. ellipt. Boiled beef or mutton. colloq.
1804M. Edgeworth Pop. Tales I. v. 277 Mr. Hill commenced a practice..of going..into the kitchen..to take a slice from the roast or the boiled before it went up to table. 1834,1856[see roast n. 2]. 1844Dickens Christmas Carol (Hoppe) A great piece of cold boiled. 1861[see stewed ppl. a.1].
c. Intoxicated. slang. Also phr. as drunk as a boiled owl.
[1885Referee 31 May 3/3 Twiss..had just the boiled-owlish appearance that is gained by working all night in a printing-office.] 1886J. A. Porter Sks. Yale Life 156 There is a balm for a headache caused by last night's debauch to have it said you were ‘slightly cheered’ or ‘slewed’ or ‘boiled’. 1892Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 5/4 The expression, ‘Intoxicated as a boiled owl’, is a gross libel upon a highly respectable teetotal bird. 1922Joyce Ulysses 300 He brought him home as drunk as a boiled owl. 1928Amer. Speech IV. 102 Expressions synonymous with or circumlocutory for ‘drunk’..blotto, boiled. 1940‘H. Pentecost’ 24th Horse (1951) v. 45 He's boiled to the ears.
2. Special Combs.: boiled crow (see crow n.1 3); boiled dinner (orig. U.S.), a dinner of meat and vegetables boiled together; boiled oil, a preparation of linseed oil used as a drying-oil; boiled shirt, (a) U.S. a white linen shirt (see shirt n. 1); (b) a man's dress shirt.
1805Pocumtuc Housewife (1906) 9 Directions for a Boiled Dinner may seem unnecessary. 1897Howells Landlord Lion's Head iii. 13 The woman brought in a good boiled dinner of corned beef, potatoes, turnips, and carrots.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade 43/2 Boiled oil, a drying oil made by boiling a small quantity of litharge in linseed oil, till it is dissolved. 1887F. B. Gardner Painters' Encycl. 53 Boiled oil,..an oil which has been brought by the action of heat and of oxidising materials into a state of greater activity, in fact—into a state of incipient slow oxidation. 1921C. Worth Yacht Cruising (ed. 2) 407 Boiled oil is darker and thicker than raw linseed oil and dries more quickly.
1853in Amer. Speech (1954) XXIX. 7 When I get shaved and get a ‘boiled shirt’ on, which I have not had on since I left home, for we don't boil our shirts here, for we think cold water quite enough in a country where there is no female society. 1854[see shirt n. 1]. 1872Dublin Univ. Mag. Feb. 219 Every man arrays himself in ‘store-clothes’ and boiled shirts. 1920‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond ii. 47 If one goes about..in boiled shirts while pretending merely to be out for the afternoon, people have doubts as to one's intellect. 1928D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xxi. 266 You've sent for a bloke in a boiled shirt to take your place, I suppose? |