soft-boiled

British

adjective

(of an egg) boiled for a short time so that the yolk is still soft
informal softhearted

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And they have this really good Caesar salad that they put a whole soft-boiled egg on.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

"It was kind of hanging out of my face, sitting on my cheek, I've said like a soft-boiled egg. And blind."

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

“You can go from a healthy liver as wobbly as a soft-boiled egg, to a diseased liver that is more like a hard-boiled egg,” Zhao adds.

From Science Daily • Feb. 9, 2024

Chef Sohui Kim offers tteokbokki at her restaurant, Insa, in Brooklyn–dubbing it “OG street-style spicy rice cakes” and adding soft-boiled egg and puffed rice to the dish.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2024

But Mam shakes her head and I wonder how she can say no to a soft-boiled egg when there’s nothing in the world like it.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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