dough-baked
English
Adjective
dough-baked (not comparable)
- 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.
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References
- dough-baked in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913