p 3 a 1 r 1 b 3 o 1 i 1 l 1
7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb cook (vegetables) briefly
originFrom Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0