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hard-boiled
hard-boiled
(informal) a hard-boiled person behaves as if they have no emotions (always before noun) Bogart plays the hard-boiled detective that women find irresistibly attractive.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
ThỊ | | - | Vietnamese |
Kelila | | - | Hebrew |
Christel | | KRIS-tel | German |
Madeleine | | ma-də-LEN (French), mad-LEN (French), MAD-ə-lin (English), MAD-ə-lien (English) | French, English, Swedish |
Verissimus | | - | Late Roman |
Alvar | | - | Swedish, Estonian |