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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbile,büle(“boil, tumor”), fromOld Englishbȳl,bȳle(“boil, swelling”), fromProto-Germanic*būlijō,*būlō(“boil”).

Akin toDutchbuil(“boil, swelling”),GermanBeule(“boil, hump”),Icelandicbeyla(“swelling, hump”). The expected form isbile; the rounding of the diphthong could be caused by the initialb- and/or by association with etymology 2.

Noun

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boil (pluralboils)

  1. Alocalizedaccumulation ofpus in the skin, resulting frominfection.
    Synonyms:abscess,carbuncle,cyst,furuncle,pimple,pustule
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accumulation of pus
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishboillen, fromOld Frenchboillir (seeFrenchbouillir) fromLatinbullīre(“to bubble, boil”), frombulla(“bubble”). Displaced nativeOld Englishweallan (intransitive) andwiellan (transitive). More atwall,well.

Noun

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boil (pluralboils)

  1. The point at which fluid begins to change to avapour; theboiling point.
    Add the noodles when the water comes to theboil.
  2. An instance ofboiling.
    Surface water will do, but give it a goodboil before drinking it.
  3. A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
    a down-homeboil with plenty of crab
    • 2007 January 30, Angela Skinner,Race Day Grub: Recipes from the NASCAR Family, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN, page65:
      This is Brad's classic shrimpboil—a recipe he makes for every tailgate party. Brad demands, “Don't use utensils!” INGREDIENTS: Two 6-ounce boxes Old Bay crab/shrimpboil seasoning […]
    • 2009 September 29, John Besh,My New Orleans: The Cookbook, Andrews McMeel Publishing,→ISBN, pages28, 30, 123:
      CRAWFISHBOIL EN GELÉE (TERRINE OF CRAWFISH) […] For a typical Louisiana shrimpboil, use the recipe for CrawfishBoil (page 28), substituting shrimp for the crawfish[…]
  5. (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood.(Compare abake orclambake.)
    a down-homeboil at the town hall
    • 1992, C. Paige Gutierrez,Cajun Foodways, Univ. Press of Mississippi,→ISBN, page89:
      Men and boys also learn to cook at the public and semipublic food events at which men are the primary cooks. These include crawfish and seafoodboils, familyboucheries, and community festivals. For example, at one crabboil I attended, a grandfather and his eight-year-old grandson cooked the second batch of crabs[…]. The advent of crawfish farming has expanded the availability of live crawfish beyond the old seasonal limits just described, but few Cajuns in St. Martin Parish have crawfishboils, or eat crawfish in any form, out of season.
    • 1996, United States International Trade Commission,Crawfish Tail Meat from China, page 5:
      The whole live crawfish typically are consumed at home and at crawfishboils and other social events where the crawfish is boiled […]
    • 2012 November 20, Jill Ann Harrison,Buoyancy on the Bayou: Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization, Cornell University Press,→ISBN, page89:
      I met him and his wife, Diane, at a shrimpboil I'd been invited to by another ex-trawler named Lindel.
    • 2018 June 4, Kate Parker Horigan,Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative, Univ. Press of Mississippi,→ISBN, page109:
      I also felt the desire to be in a more intimate, familiar setting where we could choose whether or not to talk about our memories of 2005; I ended up spending the evening at a shrimpboil hosted by good friends.
    • 2020 February 17, Harriet Keyserling,Against the Tide: One Woman's Political Struggle, Univ of South Carolina Press,→ISBN, page155:
      When Mondale had run for president two summers before, for some reason he opened his campaign in Beaufort, at a shrimpboil in our new waterfront park.
  6. (rare, nonstandard)Thecollective noun for a group ofhawks.
  7. (archaic) Abubbling.
    • 1828, James Hogg,Mary Burnet:
      He swam to the place where Mary disappeared but there was neitherboil nor gurgle on the water, nor even abell of departing breath, to mark the place where his beloved had sunk.
    • 1897, Rudyard Kipling,Captains Courageous:
      The sea round them clouded and darkened, and then frizzed up in showers of tiny silver fish, and over a space of five or six acres the cod began to leap like trout in May; while behind the cod three or four broad gray-backs broke the water intoboils.
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point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour
collective noun for hawks

Verb

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boil (third-person singular simple presentboils,present participleboiling,simple past and past participleboiledor(nonstandard, regional)boilt)

  1. (transitive, of liquids) Toheat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
    Synonyms:seethe,well,(UK, dialectal, dated, uncommon)plaw;see alsoThesaurus:cook
    Antonym:condense
    Boil some water in a pan.
  2. (ambitransitive) Tocook in boiling water.
    Boil the eggs for three minutes.
    Is the riceboiling yet?
  3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas,seethe.
    Pure waterboils at 100 degrees Celsius.
  4. (transitive, UK, informal) Tobring to a boil, toheat so as tocause thecontents to boil.
  5. (intransitive, informal, used only inprogressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
    Synonyms:be baking,be scorching,be sweltering
    Antonym:be freezing
    It’sboiling outside!
  6. (intransitive, informal, used only inprogressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
    Synonyms:be seething,be baking,be stewing
    Antonym:be freezing
    I’mboiling in here – could you open the window?
  7. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
    toboil sugar or salt
    • 2016, Alex Groner,American Heritage History of American Business:
      Another leader in the packaged product business was the Procter & Gamble Company, formed in Cincinnati in 1837 by William Procter, who molded candles, and his brother-in-law, James Gamble, whoboiled soap.
  8. (obsolete) Tosteep orsoak inwarm water.
    • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:
      To try whether seeds be old or new, the sense cannot inform; but if youboil them in water, the new seeds will sprout sooner.
  9. (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
    theboiling waves of the sea
  10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
    His bloodboils with anger.
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(transitive) heat (a liquid) until it begins to turn into a gas
cook in boiling water
(intransitive) begin to turn into a gas
colloquial: of the weather, to be uncomfortably hot
colloquial: of a person, to be uncomfortably hot
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