boiledadj.

Brit.

/bɔɪld/, U.S.

/bɔɪld/

Etymology: < boil v. + -ed suffix¹.

a. Brought to the state of ebullition; subjected to boiling; cooked, cleansed, etc., by boiling. In quot. a1616 boiled stuff = harlots: with allusion to the sweating-tub.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled

sod1297

sodden1382

playing1440

boileda1475

coct1497

cocted1625

seethed1775

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective] > boiled

y-sothen1377

yboylidc1430

boileda1475

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > collectively or as a class

sisters of the Bank1548

boiled stuffa1616

women-striker1665

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 43 Þenne boylyd blode take þou shalle.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiii^v We went where we had boylde beefe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 126 Such boyl'd stuffe As well might poyson Poyson.

1676 London Gaz. No. 1137/4 One Set of..Plate Buttons newly boyl'd.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 185 To cut such capers as you eat with boiled mutton.

1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 245 Where men and women subsisted on boiled nettles.

figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 62 These boylde-braines of nineteene, and two and twenty.

b. elliptical. Boiled beef or mutton. colloquial.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > boiled meat

soddena1400

sod1548

bouilli1664

boiled1804

trembling beef1806

New England boiled dinner1888

1804 M. Edgeworth Limerick Gloves v, in Pop. Tales I. 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 S. Smith Lett. cccxl Tory and Whig in turns shall be my host, I taste no politics in boil'd and roast.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 60 A great piece of Cold Boiled.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 178 [He] should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger.

1861 G. Trevelyan Horace at Athens (1862) 24 I'm..tightly filled With roast, and boiled, and stewed, and pulled, and grilled.

c. Intoxicated. slang. Also as drunk as a boiled owl.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

fordrunkenc897

drunkena1050

cup-shottenc1330

drunka1400

inebriate1497

overseenc1500

liquor1509

fou1535

nase?1536

full1554

intoxicate1554

tippled1564

intoxicated1576

pepst1577

overflown1579

whip-cat1582

pottical1586

cup-shota1593

fox-drunk1592

lion-drunk1592

nappy1592

sack-sopped1593

in drink1598

disguiseda1600

drink-drowned1600

daggeda1605

pot-shotten1604

tap-shackled1604

high1607

bumpsy1611

foxed1611

in one's cups1611

liquored1611

love-pot1611

pot-sick1611

whift1611

owl-eyed1613

fapa1616

hota1616

inebriated1615

reeling ripea1616

in one's (or the) pots1618

scratched1622

high-flown?1624

pot-shot1627

temulentive1628

ebrious1629

temulent1629

jug-bitten1630

pot-shaken1630

toxed1635

bene-bowsiea1637

swilled1637

paid1638

soaken1651

temulentious1652

flagonal1653

fuddled1656

cut1673

nazzy1673

concerned1678

whittled1694

suckey1699

well-oiled1701

tippeda1708

tow-row1709

wet1709

swash1711

strut1718

cocked1737

cockeyed1737

jagged1737

moon-eyed1737

rocky1737

soaked1737

soft1737

stewed1737

stiff1737

muckibus1756

groggy1770

muzzeda1788

muzzya1795

slewed1801

lumpy1810

lushy1811

pissed1812

blue1813

lush1819

malty1819

sprung1821

three sheets in the wind1821

obfuscated1822

moppy1823

ripe1823

mixed1825

queer1826

rosined1828

shot in the neck1830

tight1830

rummy1834

inebrious1837

mizzled1840

obflisticated1840

grogged1842

pickled1842

swizzled1843

hit under the wing1844

obfusticatedc1844

ebriate1847

pixilated1848

boozed1850

ploughed1853

squiffy?1855

buffy1858

elephant trunk1859

scammered1859

gassed1863

fly-blown1864

rotten1864

shot1864

ebriose1871

shicker1872

parlatic1877

miraculous1879

under the influence1879

ginned1881

shickered1883

boiled1886

mosy1887

to be loaded for bear(s)1888

squiffeda1890

loaded1890

oversparred1890

sozzled1892

tanked1893

orey-eyed1895

up the (also a) pole1897

woozy1897

toxic1899

polluted1900

lit-up1902

on (also upon) one's ear1903

pie-eyed1903

pifflicated1905

piped1906

spiflicated1906

jingled1908

skimished1908

tin hat1909

canned1910

pipped1911

lit1912

peloothered1914

molo1916

shick1916

zigzag1916

blotto1917

oiled-up1918

stung1919

stunned1919

bottled1922

potted1922

rotto1922

puggled1923

puggle1925

fried1926

crocked1927

fluthered1927

lubricated1927

whiffled1927

liquefied1928

steamed1929

mirackc1930

overshot1931

swacked1932

looped1934

stocious1937

whistled1938

sauced1939

mashed1942

plonked1943

stone1945

juiced1946

buzzed1952

jazzed1955

schnockered1955

honkers1957

skunked1958

bombed1959

zonked1959

bevvied1960

mokus1960

snockered1961

plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

wired1970

zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

funked up1976

trousered1977

motherless1980

tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

wazzed1990

mullered1993

twatted1993

bollocksed1994

lashed1996

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk

drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350

to-drunka1382

as drunk as the devilc1400

sow-drunk1509

fish-drunk1591

swine-drunk1592

gone1603

far gone1616

reeling drunk1620

soda1625

souseda1625

blind1630

full1631

drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652

as full (or tight) as a tick1678

clear1688

drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700

as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727

as drunk as a piper1728

blind-drunkc1775

bitch foua1796

blootered1820

whole-seas over1820

three sheets in the wind1821

as drunk as a loon1830

shellaced1881

as drunk as a boiled owl1886

stinking1887

steaming drunk1892

steaming with drink1897

footless1901

legless1903

plastered1912

legless drunk1926

stinko1927

drunk as a pissant1930

kaylied1937

langers1949

stoned1952

smashed1962

shit-faced1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

trashed1966

faced1968

stoned1968

steaming1973

langered1979

annihilated1980

obliterated1984

wankered1992

muntered1998

1885 Referee 31 May 3/3 Twiss..had just the boiled-owlish appearance that is gained by working all night in a printing-office.]

1886 J. 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’.

1892 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 5/4 The expression, ‘Intoxicated as a boiled owl’, is a gross libel upon a highly respectable teetotal bird.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 293 He brought him home as drunk as a boiled owl.

1928 Amer. Speech 4 102 Expressions synonymous with or circumlocutory for ‘drunk’..blotto, boiled.

1940 ‘H. Pentecost’ 24th Horse (1951) v. 45 He's boiled to the ears.

Compounds

Special combinations.

boiled crow n. (see crow n.¹ 3).

boiled dinner n. originally U.S. a dinner of meat and vegetables boiled together.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner

mealeOE

dinnerc1325

dinea1425

Christmas dinner1581

Sunday dinner1602

corporation dinner1732

Russian dinner1805

boiled dinner1823

pickup1848

Robin Dinner1877

course-dinner1895

shore dinner1895

din-din1905

gala dinner1934

TV dinner1952

working dinner1956

steak dinnera1964

1823 C. Mackenzie Five Thousand Receipts 249/1 This [scum] must be carefully taken off as soon as it appears, for on this depends the good appearance of a boiled dinner.

1897 Pocumtuc Housewife 14 If it was to be a boiled dinner grandmother and one of the girls would set about it as soon as breakfast was well out of the way.

1906 W. Churchill Coniston 120 He attacked the boiled dinner with a ferocity which should have been exercised against Jethro.

boiled oil n. a preparation of linseed oil used as a drying-oil.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > linseed oil > used as drying oil

boiled oil1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 43/2 Boiled oil, a drying oil made by boiling a small quantity of litharge in linseed oil, till it is dissolved.

1887 F. 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.

1921 C. Worth Yacht Cruising (ed. 2) 407 Boiled oil is darker and thicker than raw linseed oil and dries more quickly.

boiled shirt n. (a) U.S. a white linen shirt (see shirt n. 2); (b) a man's dress shirt.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > of specific material

hair-shirt1737

hunting-shirt1775

hickory shirt1825

narp1839

regatta shirt1840

boiled shirt1853

shirt1867

undergo1876

Oxford shirt1881

mackinaw shirt1916

Oxford1927

Aertex shirt1937

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other

bloody shirta1586

ruffle shirt1749

ruffled shirt1754

dicky1781

overshirt1805

camise1812

mill tog1821

boiled shirt1853

Crimean shirt1853

Crimea shirt1857

shirtwaist1859

shirt1867

polo shirt1887

zephyr1887

Ghost Shirt1890

Henley1890

negligée shirt1895

turtle-neck1897

rugby shirt1902

bush shirt1909

tunic shirt1918

safari shirt1921

button-down1924

thousand-miler1929

aloha shirt1936

buba1937

zoot shirt1942

Hawaiian shirt1955

sweater-shirt1964

beach shirt1966

kimono shirt1968

dashiki1969

1853 in Amer. Speech (1954) 29 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.

1869 A. K. McClure 3,000 Miles through Rocky Mts. 412 I borrowed a ‘boiled shirt’..and plunged in [to the Governor's reception] with a Byron collar and polished boots.

1872 Dublin Univ. Mag. 79 219/2 Every man arrays himself in ‘store-clothes’ and ‘boiled shirts’.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 22 Sept. The fact is that Tammany Hall has merely progressed from shirtsleeves to the ‘boiled shirt’.

1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog 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.

1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xxi. 266 You've sent for a bloke in a boiled shirt to take your place, I suppose?

Draft additions March 2014

boiled sweet n. originally and chiefly British a hard, often brightly-coloured sweet made of boiled sugar.

ΚΠ

1862 Lancet 8 Nov. 513/2 Messrs. Hill and Jones exhibit..amongst other articles a variety of lozenges, comfits, jujubes, and boiled sweets.

1930 Times 12 Sept. 14/2 A number of cases of illness among children in Congleton and North Staffordshire after eating boiled sweets.

1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 323 It reminds me of the boiled sweets I used to buy as a child, two-tone affairs called rhubarb and custard, that left the inside of my cheek rough with sugar-shock.

2012 Country Living (Nexis) Nov. 88 Tulips are the best spring-flowering bulbs... What's more, they come in classic vivid, boiled-sweet colours—yellow, scarlet and purple.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	boiled
释义	boiledadj. Brit. /bɔɪld/, U.S. /bɔɪld/ Etymology: < boil v. + -ed suffix¹. a. Brought to the state of ebullition; subjected to boiling; cooked, cleansed, etc., by boiling. In quot. a1616 boiled stuff = harlots: with allusion to the sweating-tub. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled sod1297 sodden1382 playing1440 boileda1475 coct1497 cocted1625 seethed1775 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective] > boiled y-sothen1377 yboylidc1430 boileda1475 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute > collectively or as a class sisters of the Bank1548 boiled stuffa1616 women-striker1665 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 43 Þenne boylyd blode take þou shalle. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Eiii^v We went where we had boylde beefe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 126 Such boyl'd stuffe As well might poyson Poyson. View more context for this quotation 1676 London Gaz. No. 1137/4 One Set of..Plate Buttons newly boyl'd. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 185 To cut such capers as you eat with boiled mutton. 1881 J. Morley Life R. Cobden I. 245 Where men and women subsisted on boiled nettles. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 62 These boylde-braines of nineteene, and two and twenty. View more context for this quotation b. elliptical. Boiled beef or mutton. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > boiled meat soddena1400 sod1548 bouilli1664 boiled1804 trembling beef1806 New England boiled dinner1888 1804 M. Edgeworth Limerick Gloves v, in Pop. Tales I. 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 S. Smith Lett. cccxl Tory and Whig in turns shall be my host, I taste no politics in boil'd and roast. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 60 A great piece of Cold Boiled. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 178 [He] should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger. 1861 G. Trevelyan Horace at Athens (1862) 24 I'm..tightly filled With roast, and boiled, and stewed, and pulled, and grilled. c. Intoxicated. slang. Also as drunk as a boiled owl. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1885 Referee 31 May 3/3 Twiss..had just the boiled-owlish appearance that is gained by working all night in a printing-office.] 1886 J. 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’. 1892 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 5/4 The expression, ‘Intoxicated as a boiled owl’, is a gross libel upon a highly respectable teetotal bird. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 293 He brought him home as drunk as a boiled owl. 1928 Amer. Speech 4 102 Expressions synonymous with or circumlocutory for ‘drunk’..blotto, boiled. 1940 ‘H. Pentecost’ 24th Horse (1951) v. 45 He's boiled to the ears. Compounds Special combinations. boiled crow n. (see crow n.¹ 3). boiled dinner n. originally U.S. a dinner of meat and vegetables boiled together. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > main meal or dinner mealeOE dinnerc1325 dinea1425 Christmas dinner1581 Sunday dinner1602 corporation dinner1732 Russian dinner1805 boiled dinner1823 pickup1848 Robin Dinner1877 course-dinner1895 shore dinner1895 din-din1905 gala dinner1934 TV dinner1952 working dinner1956 steak dinnera1964 1823 C. Mackenzie Five Thousand Receipts 249/1 This [scum] must be carefully taken off as soon as it appears, for on this depends the good appearance of a boiled dinner. 1897 Pocumtuc Housewife 14 If it was to be a boiled dinner grandmother and one of the girls would set about it as soon as breakfast was well out of the way. 1906 W. Churchill Coniston 120 He attacked the boiled dinner with a ferocity which should have been exercised against Jethro. boiled oil n. a preparation of linseed oil used as a drying-oil. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > linseed oil > used as drying oil boiled oil1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 43/2 Boiled oil, a drying oil made by boiling a small quantity of litharge in linseed oil, till it is dissolved. 1887 F. 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. 1921 C. Worth Yacht Cruising (ed. 2) 407 Boiled oil is darker and thicker than raw linseed oil and dries more quickly. boiled shirt n. (a) U.S. a white linen shirt (see shirt n. 2); (b) a man's dress shirt. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > of specific material hair-shirt1737 hunting-shirt1775 hickory shirt1825 narp1839 regatta shirt1840 boiled shirt1853 shirt1867 undergo1876 Oxford shirt1881 mackinaw shirt1916 Oxford1927 Aertex shirt1937 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > shirt > types of > other bloody shirta1586 ruffle shirt1749 ruffled shirt1754 dicky1781 overshirt1805 camise1812 mill tog1821 boiled shirt1853 Crimean shirt1853 Crimea shirt1857 shirtwaist1859 shirt1867 polo shirt1887 zephyr1887 Ghost Shirt1890 Henley1890 negligée shirt1895 turtle-neck1897 rugby shirt1902 bush shirt1909 tunic shirt1918 safari shirt1921 button-down1924 thousand-miler1929 aloha shirt1936 buba1937 zoot shirt1942 Hawaiian shirt1955 sweater-shirt1964 beach shirt1966 kimono shirt1968 dashiki1969 1853 in Amer. Speech (1954) 29 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. 1869 A. K. McClure 3,000 Miles through Rocky Mts. 412 I borrowed a ‘boiled shirt’..and plunged in [to the Governor's reception] with a Byron collar and polished boots. 1872 Dublin Univ. Mag. 79 219/2 Every man arrays himself in ‘store-clothes’ and ‘boiled shirts’. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 22 Sept. The fact is that Tammany Hall has merely progressed from shirtsleeves to the ‘boiled shirt’. 1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog 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. 1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club xxi. 266 You've sent for a bloke in a boiled shirt to take your place, I suppose? Draft additions March 2014 boiled sweet n. originally and chiefly British a hard, often brightly-coloured sweet made of boiled sugar. ΚΠ 1862 Lancet 8 Nov. 513/2 Messrs. Hill and Jones exhibit..amongst other articles a variety of lozenges, comfits, jujubes, and boiled sweets. 1930 Times 12 Sept. 14/2 A number of cases of illness among children in Congleton and North Staffordshire after eating boiled sweets. 1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 323 It reminds me of the boiled sweets I used to buy as a child, two-tone affairs called rhubarb and custard, that left the inside of my cheek rough with sugar-shock. 2012 Country Living (Nexis) Nov. 88 Tulips are the best spring-flowering bulbs... What's more, they come in classic vivid, boiled-sweet colours—yellow, scarlet and purple. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1475
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