Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cook by boiling. 2 (context intransitive idiomatic English) To become more excited, intense or exciting.
Wikipedia
Boil up may refer to:
- Bile up, a cultural dish of the Kriols of Belize.
- Māori cuisine
Usage examples of "boil up".
Then boil up the mixture again, keeping it simmering for a good hour.
Allow to get cold, strain and add lump sugar, sufficient to form a syrup, boil up again, skim, and when cold bottle for use.
My mother threw coarse-grained salt -- a handful -- into the enamel pot, piled up the foot-long tatters of meat in the boiling salt water, let the water boil up again for a moment, put in marjoram, because marjoram is supposed to be good for a dog's sense of smell, turned the gas down, covered the pot, and didn't touch it for a whole hour.
In exchange, Nelson would chop our firewood, boil up steaming pots of lumpy manioc, and bring us fruit, greens, and bark potions collected from the forest.
The Brownies would drag a rat down into the Ooze just for fun, and a hungry Boggart would happily boil up a rat stew for its baby Boggarts, who were, in the Message Rat's opinion, voracious little pests.
It was strange, Newt thought, that one river could be so peaceful and another suddenly boil up with snakes and kill Sean.
I got a tin of Benger's Food and some milk, and I got the people next door to let me boil up some hot milk for her, and fill the hot-water-bottles.
The image of him standing and talking to Slade still burned brightly in my mind and I felt the rage boil up within me.
Voorstod is a boil up the ass of civilization, and everyone was ready for it to be lanced.
Bobby Shaftoe's response is to boil up some powerful coffee and begin pouring it into their signal man, Pedro.
And I don't want that to boil up inside you like it seems to be doing.