Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imperfectly baked; unfinished; half-done; soft; hence, imperfect; deficient, especially intellectually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Imperfectly
baked . - adjective colloquial Not brought to
perfection ;unfinished . - adjective colloquial
dull-witted
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Examples
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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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The devil take thee for an insensible dough-baked varlet!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And the Lutherans, who, by a dough-baked reformation, striking off from the Romish errors, have rather changed than corrected this grand absurdity, they assert a consubstantiation, and the consequent of it, the ubiquity of Christ's human nature.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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A party of dough-baked democrats of fortune were weary of being dissevered from their fellow rich men.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The devil take thee for an insensible dough-baked varlet!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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