dough-baked
English
Adjective
- Imperfectly baked.
- (colloquial) Not brought to perfection; unfinished.
- (colloquial) Dull-witted.
- 1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison:
- But as to your milksops, your dough-baked lovers, who stay at home and strut among the women, when glory is to be gained in the martial field; I despise them with all my heart.
References
- “dough-baked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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