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

  • 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.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The devil take thee for an insensible dough-baked varlet!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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